April 29, 2009
Written by: Pat Cleary
Here's a piece by the above title from Joe Hight, a former Labor Department colleague of mine, a very bright guy and a columnist for The Examiner, where this ran. It puts some things in perspective and provides some very useful...
April 23, 2009
Written by: Pat Cleary
A great op-ed by that title in today's WaPo, warning of the growing trend toward protectionism around the globe and its deleterious effects. A good read. Here's a link to a USA Today story from earlier this month that lists...
April 22, 2009
Written by: Pat Cleary
Stop the next person you meet on the street and ask them this question, and almost everyone would say, "China." They would be wrong. It's the good ol' US of A, the world's top manufacturing power, -- 65% bigger than...
April 20, 2009
Written by: Pat Cleary
Whether you're an association, company, non-profit, grassroots or public affairs professional, here is a conference you don't want to miss. This great annual event -- that has grown from a classroom at GW University to the Reagan Building - kicks...
April 12, 2009
Written by: Pat Cleary
We posted on this issue a month or so ago, highlighting a great op-ed that ran in the WaPo. Well, here's an unsettling story from today's WaPo on mounting delays in the visa process. It profiles a legal immigrant --...
April 12, 2009
Written by: Pat Cleary
You gotta give the WaPo credit -- on some issues they are consistent, even if consistently wrong. One of those issues is the death tax. They editorialized on it again today -- wrongly -- and Michael Kinsley wrote an op-ed...
April 3, 2009
Written by: Pat Cleary
For those of you not already on this list, there's a great roundup of the day's business news - including political and legislative developments - put together by JP Fielder over at the US Chamber of Commerce. He reads it...
April 3, 2009
Written by: Pat Cleary
Thanks to Allen Hopper for passing along this gem (via Will McHenry), of some poodle grooming gone haywire. Presumably these are people who actually want their dogs to look like this, but it really is just hideous. You have to...
