Tuesday, December 31, 2013

A New Year ritual of renewal

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It is the season of both ritual and renewal. While our family is not especially observant when it comes to religion we do adhere to ritu...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Letter From Zavala County

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           Greetings from Zavala County in southwest Texas, “the spinach capital of the world”, replete with an annual spinach festival ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

A 50th Anniversary, Both Public and Private, of MLK I Have A Dream Speech

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            Wednesday is the much anticipated 50 th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, and for me it marks a re...
Friday, August 9, 2013

An Unreasonable Man's Triumph of Imagination

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UPDATE: “Once you have proven the concept, everything else is engineering. The stakes are so high. A baby dies every 60 seconds from m...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

The lasting power of bearing witness

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I’m just back from Seattle where I gave the keynote at a Gates Foundation conference cross sector collaboration in education.  There wer...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Increasing Child Poverty and the Political Culture in America Today

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            For the past ten years I’ve spent July 4 th at Goose Rocks Beach in Maine whose population of a few hundred swells to a sev...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Leading health care CEO speaks out on link between hunger and health care

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Several months ago Share Our Strength and Deloitte released a report about Deloitte’s extensive research on the connections between hung...
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