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The Financial Reform Act surprisingly includes the long-awaited requirement for natural resource companies to publish what they pay to kleptocrats.
Archive for the ‘Good news’ Category
August 28th, 2010
August 18th, 2009
Category: Democrats in Congress, Good news, Health Care, Struggle Between Good and Evil, The permanent campaign
From the NYT, posted 7 minutes ago: Democrats Seem Set to Go Alone on a Health Bill Now all we need to do is get rid of the “seem,” and we’re set.
May 26th, 2009
The greatest woman in the world is someone no one would have expected a decade ago.
March 26th, 2009
Category: Good news
Since January, and no-one told me! I love Maira Kalman! This month’s op-ed pushes all my buttons: Thomas More, de Toqueville, New England local governance, social capital…. Well, so did the one in January, my other buttons, blessings and thanks for small and big odd things and banal things my favorite poem. I love Maira [...]
February 4th, 2009
Is health care for kids good?
January 25th, 2009
And there was much rejoicing…
December 24th, 2008
The Obama science team needs more social scientists and a global perspective.
October 6th, 2008
Category: Economics, Garbage pail, Good news, Macroeconomic Policy, Politics and Leadership, The Built Environment
This is written as the Dow is sinking almost 7% through about 9600, after a similar day on foreign markets. The judgment of investors isn’t the rousing endorsement of the bailout some had hoped for. And Floyd Norris passes on the following CNN poll result: As you may know, the U.S. went through a depression [...]
October 1st, 2008
Some good news on the urbanism and climate change front: Schwarzenegger backed down from initial veto threats and signed SB 375, which, as the title of this post suggests, might actually be the most important smart growth bill in history. Other states have done some work in this area, most notably Maryland under former Governor [...]
September 27th, 2008
Category: Good news
Rachel Maddow and Frank Rich, you are among the things I count myself lucky to be contemporary with. I invoke the spirit of the immortal Cole. I don’t have anything in particular in mind, just the whole two packages of sanity, wit, perspicacity, and wisdom. When I grow up, I want to be just like [...]
