Daily Archives: 09/16/2011

(Community Matters) To those who cheer “let him die” if a 30-yo man chose not to purchase health insurance but subsequently needed intensive care, I want to say something really bad & ugly but instead I think I better stop and listen. It’s more important that we heal what divides us than it is we shout back at each other.

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(Community Matters) quote from CA philanthropist Jim Steyer who w/ his brother, billionaire Tom Steyer, established the Center for the Next Generation to serve as an advocate in public policy debates.

“We’ve spent hundreds of billions of dollars on war over the last 10 years at the same time we’ve been spending less and less on kids. That’s fiscally insane and morally bankrupt, but no one is talking about it.”

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(Community Matters) At breakfast this morning my friend Ken Ulman talked about Healthy Howard, “a community-supported health plan for uninsured residents of Howard County, the only place in the country with a plan like this.

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(Community Matters) Kirk’ Watson’s annual ACL kickoff last night at ACL. Kirk’s got to enjoy the broadest deepest support in Central Texas. List of sponsors is across the board (below). Thanks to Eric Copper for joining me.

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(Community Matters) I couldn’t find a link to today’s Dear Abby. While I’m not unsympathetic for Shirley . . . . Goldie “is my very best friend, constant companion and never nags.”