I remember the first time I made a veggie burger for my kids. They knew something was different- only because in our home there would never be cheese on a hamburger. (Kosher requires the separation between meat and dairy- never on the same plate, let alone within the same food item.)
Continue reading Something new (maybe even better) under the sun?
My company was 5 years old. We were still involved in health care, but this was the heyday for water and water treatment. So, that portion of our business skyrocketed.
Continue reading III is the charm
Many of you know, I have served as the CFO for a few legal firms. One of my longest affiliations was with a family law practice. (Don’t you just love that euphemism… family law, aka divorce. One of the most contentious of all law practices.)
Continue reading The biggest asset in a divorce…
I remember. From when I was really little, my dad took over the left side of the house for his garden. Where he would spend hours every spring, summer, and fall growing vegetables.
Continue reading Soil. Water. Air?
I have lived in the Commonwealth of Virginia for some 40 years now. And, over the past decade, the educational budget has been cut and cut and cut. Oh, it’s not just the Commonwealth. Michigan, California, New York… I could go on. Overall, our 50 states have averaged a 23% drop in funding from the Great Recession through 2013- and the precipitous drop is only accelerating. It used to be that these states all provided outstanding college education and experiences to the students of their states. But, not anymore.
Continue reading It’s important. REALLY!
So, many of you many of heard of the quixotic quest a law prof at Fordham effected a month or two ago. Dr. Zephyr Teachout ran against Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic Gubernatorial slot. While many expected her to garner about 25% of the vote, she did manage to tally about 35%, primarily as a result of the ethics issues swirling about Cuomo.
Continue reading Rampant Bribery
Here’s a contrarian view to what so many politicians want you to believe. We must provide a social safety net for the poor. We must find a way to educate parents – and to find a means to let them have enough time- in between their two and three shifts of (part-time work)- to spend “quality time” with their kids. We must fund early childhood education.
Continue reading It’s time. No excuses.
Most of you know that I live in metropolitan DC. Which means that bsides all the cameras the Feds have installed to spy on us, we have a plethora of traffic cameras.
I have railed against lobbyists forever. Even knowing that on at least one occasion, I might have been construed as one. The difference is that no one was paying me to do what I did. (I believed- no, I knew- we needed to have the US Government to pay the costs for dialysis for American citizens.)
Continue reading They’re hiding everywhere!
You know I read a few newspapers and a slew of journals and magazines. And, I used to watch the network news. When I was younger, it was Eric Sevaried, Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, Howard K. Smith. A while later it was Chuck Scarborough (who I first saw in Boston before he made New York screens).
Continue reading Oh, my G-d, it’s the NEWS!