Tag Archives: politics
Getting involved in local politics
As I’ve written about it here before, I’ve been looking for a way to get involved and to learn more about politics. I’d like to learn more about how candidates bubble up to win elections and about what goes on in the “back-end” of political activities.
To start, this week I attended a so called “New [...]
Heathcare Reform in Colorado: Blue Ribbon Commission
This is not news to those that follow Colorado state policy, but just over a year ago then-Governor Bill Owens signed Senate Bill 208, which established the The Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform (aka 208 Commission). The commission’s goal is to
“study and establish health care reform models for expanding coverage, especially for the [...]
Christine Quinn: a politician to watch
This is a third video in a row to be posted here and I apologize for that – but I couldn’t resist.
Charlie Rose had a great guest on and I would like to share my excitement with you.
The guest’s name was Christine Quinn and she the Speaker of the New York City Council. There [...]
TED Talks: Allison Hunt gets a new hip in Canada.
TEDster Allison Hunt’s five-minute talk finds humor and marketing strategy in the most unlikely of places — her own hip-replacement surgery. As the world scrutinizes broken health-care systems, this particularly timely clip shows how getting to the front of a two-year waiting list can have an altruistic effect. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, CA. Duration: [...]
Election 2008: Initial Elimination, or Do You Believe in Evolution?
We often talk about the need to elect our political leaders based “on the issues” rather than popularity, party loyalty, or media coverage. I don’t like that too often the public attention is paid on the highly publicized, but completely trivial aspects of the presidential race: like Howard Dean’s yelp, Al Gore’s sighs during [...]
Hank Brown