Daily Archives: 11/14/2010

(Community Matters) I don’t do iPhone or I’d play @Path

(Community Matters) Really, just 90 days?

(Community Matters) It is really embarrassing if the administration is seriously considering caving this easily to the House GOP. Get some spine guys – at least force their leadership to propose the specific spending cuts offsetting the billions in tax cut extensions (a wise friend’s idea).

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/opinion/14rich.xml

I’m not so sure this is as much about super rich individuals as it is about the private conglomerates and the fossil fuel, insurance and financial industries

(Community Matters) Traveling by train is so civilized.

(Community Matters) NY Times article on Haiti microfinance http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/business/global/14haiti.xml includes Fonkoze which HelpHaiti donors have supported substantially and will likely support even more. Our friend Anne Hastings mentioned as is her success in securing Red Cross funding to forgive and relaunch loans to those devastated by the earthquake. HelpHaiti donors have funded continued training & launching of savings programs for Haitian women as well as medical & nutritional programs for their children. Posted from my Blackberry

(Community Matters) Dinner last night at Max & Moritz with our friend Alexer Taganas, a UT architecture grad student interning in Berlin since February. He arrived during the economic downturn and is seeing improvement as evidenced by more work and hiring at the firm.

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