drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - May 19 2008 | books, news, cities
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - May 19 2008 | jerry springer, law, law school, news
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - May 01 2008 | canada - us relations, economics, foreign policy, news, politics, canada, michigan, detroit
This is an issue near and dear to my heart, and there are lots of good points in this article. There are also lots of unsupported conclusions though, and the author ignores the fact that our trade relationship is, overall, wildly successful for both parties.
Perhaps the reason Windsor isn't doing well compared to 1999 is that the Loonie is no longer a joke and Detroit built casinos of its own. In which smoking is allowed. And our own state, particularly the SE region, is falling apart and so we have less to spend and we consciously choose to spend it here.
There are perfectly good reasons for enhanced security that can and will help both nations in the long run.
Quoted: Strict new border policies are turning Canada into a foreign country. Is this any way to treat our neighbors?
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - May 01 2008 | mom, liberia, health, news, africa, education
A redot from Mel I am very proud to share with those who didn't catch it already.
Quoted: Dianne Slager, a nurse practitioner who has taught at Calvin for three years, will use the Nagel funds to travel to Liberia in late May of 2008 to assess knowledge and attitudes about HIV/AIDS among church leaders and to evaluate the HIV/AIDS information programs they offer.
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 17 2008 | business, money, insurance, mortgage crisis, news, economics, law
A neatly distilled analysis. Not sure it gives proper context, but it is informative.
Quoted: A lot of blame has sloshed around for the sub-prime meltdown, from greedy borrowers to greedy mortgage brokers to Alan Greenspan, but if you want the real culprit, it was the repeal of the Glass-Stegall Act.
Gotta love the crabby old Dutchmen at the Consumerist.
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 09 2008 | liberia, africa, politics, news, race, african politics
I haven't made it all the way through this yet. What I've read so far is great. Dad, you might want to pass it along to Mom (and Leah, since she doesn't appear to spend much time here anymore) (both of whom are also returning to Liberia after a long time away).
Quoted: I was going back, finally doing something I should have done a thousand different times since that night, May 16, 1980, when my mother, my younger sister, Marlene, and I got on a Pan Am flight at Robertsfield and fled the place that my great-great-great-great-grandfather helped found.
Quoted: Because of him, I would not grow up, 150 years later, as an American black girl, burdened by racial stereotypes about welfare queens. Nor would I have to deal with the weights of a sub-Saharan African girl, with a life expectancy of about 40 years, yanked out of school at 11 to fetch water and cook over a coal pot and rear children barely younger than herself.
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 03 2008 | obama, news, politics
Let's hope Pennsylvania is close and that Hillary withdraws with grace. If she does, she might just end up on the ticket after all.
Quoted: Fifty-one percent negatives among white voters, no cash — and now a lead in Pennsylvania that has dwindled to five points: They don’t come any more stalwart than Hillary Clinton, but the next three weeks are going to be one long death march.
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 28 2008 | politics, race, news, barack obama
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 23 2008 | awesome, movies, funny, news, entertainment
drew_s | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 10 2008 | liberia, world, news, animals, pygmy, hippos
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