Category: Government

Bidding for Border Protection

I noticed this story in today’s Post buried in the business section. It reports how bidding is underway between major defense contractors for a $2 billion contract to “launch a comprehensive program to transform its border control technology and infrastructure,” according to the project website. This line in the Post’s story today caught my eye: […]

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Technology and Urban Development College Park

Update, 10/24/06: Please visit the new blog Rethink College Park College Park wants to be more “college town.” It turns out the home of the University of Maryland isn’t very college-town-y: it’s part auto-based sprawl, part dismal inner-ring suburb, and nothing like Tuscon, Ann Arbor, Madison, or any other of the country’s great college towns. […]

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Riding Scandal To November: Is It Possible?

With people like Robert Greenwald, perhaps. His company, Brave New Films, has teamed up with filmmakers Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck to make a feature-length documentary about Tom Delay which will premier in May 5th in Houston, Texas. According to the film website, The Big Buy: Tom Delay’s Stolen Congress will document Tom Delay’s role […]

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E-Democracy and Online Civic Infrastructure

It seems to me that on the web the people who make the biggest splash aren’t always successful. Think about all the spectacular .com failures who had all the money, fame, and dreams in the world. The reality of the Web 2.0 mini-boom we’re experiencing is that the big success stories – Flickr, TheFaceBook, del.icio.us […]

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ACLU Town Hall On Presidential Power

The ACLU is sponsoring a live webcast on Monday, February 20th at 11 a.m. EST on the topic of presidential power. The presenters include: * Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union * John W. Dean, former White House counsel * Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional […]

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Unify Your Executive

Typically behind the times politically I had been hearing some rumblings lately about a couple buzzwords you may have heard, the “unitary executive” theory of presidential power and President Bush’s practice of issuing “signing statements” when he signs bills into law. (I have to thank in part Diane Rehm’s Feb. 7th show) Some simple googling […]

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‘Wellstone!’ Screening in D.C. Tommorrow

Tomorrow (12/8) there’s a screening of a documentary about the life of the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, “Wellstone!,” here in Washington as part of the Washington Jewish Film Festival. The screening is at 1529 16th St. NW and tickets (available online) cost $10. (If you can’t make it, the DVD is $20)

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