Community Matters

(Community Matters) Humility, Service, Love and Care – as in Care Communities.  The height of a good charity event is when it oozes who and what the nonprofit is, what it does, and how it does it. And, there’s an even higher standard . . .when an evening’s awardee(s) also oozes the essence of an organization, its clients & its volunteers.

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(Community Matters) Larry Wright’s latest on Rick Perry. I love he’s introducing the real Rick Perry to the rest of the country. This guy’s as dangerous as a cobra.

(Community Matters) Castro’s working up a critique of opponent Doggett

A reader commented on Herman’s column by noting Congressman Doggett’s effectiveness – but let’s get real . . . in 16 years, he’s passed 3 bills (and two of those were renaming federal buildings).

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(Community Matters)  It’s so hot here in Texas, I’m gonna go ahead and die, then go to Hell so I can cool off.

(Community Matters) a bit of fun gone too far

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(Community Matters) Friedman on Obama needing to shake off all the whisperers

(Community Matters) New York Attorney General Kicked Off Government Group Leading Foreclosure Probe

Not good. I agree with Joe Biden’s son and NY AG Eric Schneiderman, “events leading up to the mortgage crisis must be fully investigated, including origination and securitization practices, before any broad immunity is granted.”

I get the other side of this equation, we’ve got to move housing stock if we’re to bring this country out of recession. However, the lack of personal accountability for the mortgage & financial crisis, the Great Recession, undermines critical trust

(Community Matters) Outrageous

Quick internet search shows Harris County Associate Judge Charley Prine, Jr was the Regional Political Director at Republican National Committee from 1984 – 1989.

(Community Matters)  If banks, other mortgage underwriters & mortgage aggregators will exclude personal & corporate criminal prosecution exemption from the settlement, it shouldn’t be a problem

(Community Matters) Breaking bread – Barbara and Carrie are the consummate hostesses. Last night was six of us.

Hal McIntosh, Brian O’Neill, Eric Varity, Barbara Woghemulth, Carrie Stapelton

Good gosh some great stories told before and after dinner – I’d not be invited back if I told most.

(Community Matters) I’ve written about Hal McIntosh before. Besides Barbara & Carrie, he and his partner, Eric Varity, have become my two best friends on the Cape.

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(Community Matters) Our friend and Provincetowns’s celebrated contemporary artist, Anne Packard, painted this picture of one of my dearest late friends, Kay Longcope (Barbara Woghlemuth’s partner).

for those who know Anne’s work, it’s very nontraditional. Last year while I was here, she said she hadn’t finished it because she hadn’t completed the face. She had finished, she just didn’t realize. It’s exquisite, hauntingly beautiful – very much in the style of her grandfather, Max Bohm.