Entries from July 2009

July 25th, 2009 by tom | No Comments

July 25, 2009 at 11:37 a.m. SEATTLE TIMES
Travel to Cuba
Posted by Bruce Ramsey

A reader writes:
I’ve read with interest your July 21 column on your visit to Cuba. There are, as you noted, drab state stores where Cubans can use their currency to obtain basic necessities, like beans and rice, but the real retail market [...]


July 25th, 2009 by tom | No Comments


Green Cities Fund is online! (under construction)

July 5th, 2009 by nhu | 1 Comment

Green Cities Fund is online! (under construction)

Greencitiesfund.org is online! But the site is still under construction. Please pardon our dust while construction is underway.
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(NYT) Letters: The Public Option in Health Care Reform

July 4th, 2009 by tom | No Comments

(NYT) Letters: The Public Option in Health Care Reform

Link to NYTimes.com article
Re “The Pitfalls of the Public Option” (Economic View, June 28), in which N. Gregory Mankiw favored a “lightly regulated” private insurance system over one where a public option is included:
Would the system he advocates include a requirement that private insurers accept all applicants? As long as private insurers are allowed to pick whom [...]