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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Security! Security! Brown skin alert

UncategorizedBy John YoungAugust 26, 2014Leave a comment

    How to describe Congressman Paul Ryan’s reaction when Ray Jose showed up at his Florida book signing?     Let’s say it was like a vegetarian who, suitably bibbed for a suitable meal, sees a rack of lamb slide before him.     Jose is an organizer for United We Dream, a political group made up…

So much ‘accountability,’ so little learned

UncategorizedBy John YoungAugust 19, 2014Leave a comment

  For Colorado, with a new wave of state test scores just released from the previous school year, it’s a “gulp” moment. Years of intensive school “accountability” have yielded little but air.   The Denver Post editorial board says it this way: “Despite 10 years of bold efforts in educational reform, very little seems to have…

Profitability and social responsibility – an incompatibility?

UncategorizedBy John YoungAugust 12, 2014Leave a comment

   The name is New Belgium, and if you’re a beer drinker, most likely you are familiar.  It started 23 years ago in Jeff Lebesch’s basement in Fort Collins, Colo. Now, with Fat Tire its most popular label, it’s the nation’s eighth-largest brewery.    It’s also one of the most socially responsible corporations in America.   …

GOP’s answer now: ‘Dynamite the bridges’

UncategorizedBy John YoungAugust 5, 2014Leave a comment

   By review: If the Affordable Care Act were blown up as congressional Republicans desire, 12 million Americans who now have health insurance would have none.   That being the case, one of the most telling comments of the last six rip-roarious years came the other day from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.     In…

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