Today, the results of a survey conducted by the Florida Joint Center for Citizenship and the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) were announced in Miami. It concludes that civic engagement has dropped off markedly during the past two years in Florida, partly due to the financial crisis. The results are similar to the 2009 Civil [...]
To my fellow American Jews who believe that the pronouncements of South American leaders like Hugo Chavez, Rafael Correa or the Kirchners are just noise, I offer this cautionary tale:
My seatmate the other night on a flight to Miami was headed home after visiting with several sales prospects.
His company is based in Israel and sells [...]
Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune printed two op-ed columns concerning the intense debate over health care reform. One of these columns was written by Michael Weiser and the other was written by U.S. Senator Roland Burris of Illinois.
From Michael Weiser:
“For 30 years I owned a small consulting firm headquartered in Chicago (for most of its years [...]
On Monday evening, Julie and I went to the New York premiere of the feature-length documentary “After the Storm.” The film follows a group of Broadway performers and producers who move to New Orleans in the months after Hurricane Katrina and take on the job of revitalizing the St. Mark’s Community Center. They stage [...]
Stories about the reasons for Chicago’s first-round elimination from host-city competition for the 2016 Olympics abound in US media. Some pundits say it was bad blood between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the US Olympic Committee. Others say it was an out-and-out repudiation of America.
The explanation that makes the most sense, though, is that [...]