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Notes from Spring Gulch Folk Festival May 20-22, 2011
Wet eyes started early for me Friday when Tom Rush launched “Child’s Song”. I don’t know if it is the memory of my leaving home at 16 or the realization that my own son is about to leave for college, but this song gets me every time. The festival surprise was NewFound Road. I had not…
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“the book that changed my life”
Can reading still change the world? Check out this powerful excerpt from “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope” at http://delanceyplace.com/view_archives.php?1634
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Sour on Susan G. Komen
Editorial note: In the five years since this blog was posted the Susan B Komen organization cleaned up their act ans is a stronger performer today. Charity Navigator gives the organization respectable ratings based now on its 2016 financial data. Most media coverage has been favorable since the events mentioned in my 2011 blog post but…
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Supreme Court Cases This Term
Supreme Court Cases This Term I like this page that uses a Flash animation to summarize profiles, calendar and cases of the Supreme Court.
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Paying for College
Newsweek reports that “undergraduate borrowing trends were worrisome. An analysis by TICAS’s Project on Student Debt found that 10 percent of college graduates in 2008 owed at least $40,000 in loans”. An undergraduate who leaves college with this much debt will not be able enjoy the financial rewards of his education, and in fact, would…
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Quote from Thirty Rock
“Lettng morality get in the way of making money, I might as well become a teacher”. I’m thinking of my son Josh who wants to be a teacher.
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Just saw “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Just saw Woody Allen’s 2008 film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”. Loved everything about it. It reminds us of how we used to think. Not to mention the appeal of Spanish wine and the drean of a vacation there someday.
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100 Web visitors today
Today I hit the 100 Web site visitor milemark; the first time since the sale of MedSave more than a year ago. Much of the growth comes from marketing the expansion of the national health insurance exchange, but I made a personal effort to put more “out there” on traditional and social media sites today.…
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NJ Shellfish law reform proposal
Nobody becomes an environmental advocate while expecting to maintain popularity in their own community. I fear that BaySave’s new shellfish law reform proposal is likely to trigger hostility within my community with many low income residents that depend on the “old ways” that have depleted the bay. http://baysavefoundation.com/Shellfish-law-reform.htm