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Bill Thorpe cared about Chapel Hill enough to serve again on the Council. His point of view and good humor will be missed.
A
workshop on the current
US financial crisis/crisis in democratic
governance, with the noted economist Robert G. Williams, John K.
Voehringer Jr. Professor of Economics, and Chair, Department of
Economics, Guilford College, and author of the Money Changers: A Guided
Tour through Global Currency Markets (Zed Books, 2006).
Sponsored by: Department of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill
Date:
Monday, September 29, 2008 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location:
Gardner 105, UNC Chapel Hill
This is getting voted on in DC tomorrow, Sept. 23rd. It is not really
a local issue, but I wish to post it since I work towards these goals
locally. If it doesn't pass, perhaps local initiatives could be brought
forward.
*H.R. 6899: Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection
Act*
Last night the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6899 the "Comprehensive
I was fortunate enough to be a scholarship participant on the Inter-City Visits to Madison and Ann Arbor. I thoroughly enjoyed both experiences, but I found that I am unable to stop comparing the Madison experience to the Ann Arbor experience.
This exercise, of course, is completely unfair. Mainly because, in my opinion, Madison wins. In everything. Hands down. Period. Ann Arbor doesn't stand a chance.
Madison has an abundance of natural beauty. It had a really great downtown that seemed accessable to both students and other people. It has the Overture Center, which always takes my breath away, and Madision is a hotbed for creativity and technology. It is so much what I want for Chapel Hill.
But Ann Arbor is different (duh). I didn't see anything particularly beautiful or extrodinary about it. Ann Arbor seems much more into function, rather than form. It ain't Madison, but it has its good parts.
Ann Arbor has fantastic elected leadership. Their mayor is dynamic and charismatic, and he seems to be the agent for getting a lot of really great stuff done in Ann Arbor. He has spearheaded Ann Arbor's environmental movement.
He has
The country has been getting ransacked over the last couple of weeks. On August 4th 2008 both houses of congress (Rep. David Price included) sanctioned H.R. 3221 and the conservatorship of Fannie and Freddie essentially saddeling the U.S. government with 5.4 trillion in debt that it is now responsible for!!!
Had we had a debate and expressed the outrage over this back then, gone into the streets banging our pots and pans .... the latest outrage, the proposed bail-out bill, would now be something that our Congressman David Price might think twice about before voting ... we should have broken down his door back in August!
The very wise, prophetic, yet ignored, Catherine Austin Fitts has summed this bill up:
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