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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Small Business Needs a Break
I had a very enlightening conversation with one of our son-in-laws who is a small business owner in southern California last weekend when we made a brief visit there. We’ve had some very basic conversations about his business frustrations in … Continue reading
Posted in Topics for More Conversation
Tagged conversation, deliberation, Great Recession, jobs, NIF, public, small business, sustainable
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Changing Direction on the Debt
Talking about change is pretty easy when it’s someone else you figure needs to change. Many polls agree on one thing…many, many Americans believe our country is going in the wrong direction. They may disagree about what that wrong direction … Continue reading
Posted in Events and News, Topics for More Conversation
Tagged AmericaSpeaks, budget, civic engagement, debt, decision, deficit, deliberation, economy, equality, humility, Medicare, NIF, Social Security, sustainable, taxes
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Taxes, Tea-baggers, and Enough
A couple nights ago, I was fine-tuning some details on our ‘Deliberative IDEAS’ information kiosk in Second Life , and I met one of our neighbors…a woman who directs one of the other non-profit organizations in the Commonwealth Island community. … Continue reading
Posted in Second Life & OpenSim, Topics for More Conversation
Tagged civic engagement, conversation, deliberation, NIF, policy, public, Second Life
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A Healthy Business Environment
I believe our most urgent and important public policy topic these days focuses on the relationship between government and business. While most people recognize that government needs to have some role in business oversight, we’re not even discussing what this … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberative Practice, Topics for More Conversation
Tagged civic engagement, conversation, deliberation, NIF, policy, public
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Jobs in Community Remodeling
There’s lots of talk about jobs these days…and rightfully so. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner declared the obvious…that unemployment will remain ‘unacceptably high’ for a long time. Business experts, media pundits and politicians watch carefully as employment statistics emerge each month, … Continue reading
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Tagged civic engagement, conversation, deliberation, NIF, policy, public
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