Pssst. Don’t tell Thomas, but when the newsletter comes out tomorrow, it has an amazing article by Linda Eisenstein on an event you won’t want to miss.
Fabulous pictures of talented Cleveland artists.
From John Booth:
Thanks to a groundswell of local support, Cleveland??s the first city in the country to warrant a custom brew, North Coast Roast, from Equal Exchange, a Massachusetts-based coffee and fair trade-promoting company.
??It??s specifically for Cleveland,? said Deepak Khandelwal, Equal Exchange??s sales representative for the region. ??We??ve never done anything like this. For us, Cleveland is very special. There??s just a lot of support, a lot of demand for the product, and just a lot of energy on the consumer side, as well.?
Equal Exchange promotes fair trade to benefit farmers in Latin America, Africa and Asia…
Nice. Click thru to the article to find out where to buy yours.
Pardon me for being cynical, but Congress is at it again. Today’s Wall Street Journal has the real story behind the Dubai ports deal. A private Florida company that was in a dispute with the selling partners, manipulated Congress for its own ends. Sorry I can’t provide a link; it’s a pay-only site.
Behind the furor over the proposed takeover of five U.S. ports by a Dubai-owned company is a small stevedoring outfit caught up in a legal spat with its partner at the Port of Miami, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co….
…P&O’s proposed takeover has been in the works since late last year, but received no attention on Capitol Hill until Eller lobbyists began to brief key lawmakers in both the House and Senate, including Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of N.Y. He has since led the charge against the deal, along with other prominent Democrats such as Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Bob Menendez of New Jersey….
…An Eller subsidiary in South Florida, Continental Stevedoring & Terminals Inc., operates terminals at the Port of Miami in a partnership deal with P&O. Well before the Dubai bid arose, Continental and P&O were locked in a legal feud about allegations that P&O was trying to increase control over Continental’s portion of the port operations. That spat then became the core of a lawsuit that the Eller subsidiary filed Feb. 17.
So much for the high road.
From Matt. Visit his site for the links:
A few days ago, Pete talked about a South Dakota law that limits access to abortion services. Obviously, as soon as something like this happens, people start talking as the bitter-girl did recently. Both of them make important points.
Pete pointed out that restrictions are logically inconsistent. Bitter-girl points out that this is all just about power. Both reasons - a lack of logical consistency and unequal treatment - are good reasons to oppose laws like this.
I have one more reason: legal restrictions on abortion lack integrity.
I believe integrity is a think-act-do cycle, in the simplest terms. To explain why abortion restrictions lack integrity, we have to connect what the pro-life view seeks: stop all abortions from happening. Restrictions on the access to abortion services don’t do this.
Economically, there is a demand for abortion services. Outlawing the supply will not make the demand go away. Outlawing the supply simply means that the supply will be more costly. And, as we’ve already seen in the United States, if the restrictions are relaxed the use of the service quickly returns.
Steve Goldberg is asking for contributions to get here:
The First National Summit for Community Wireless Networks was a seminal event and helped launch the Community Wireless Networking Movement. Building on this momentum, on March 31-April 2, 2006, the Second National Summit for Community Wireless Networks at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO.
The Summit is the largest gathering of community wireless networking developers, implementers and allies focused on building the alliance of technologists, policy experts, and implementers, and encouraging participants to discuss the great variety of challenges and opportunities facing the movement.
As the TWifi representative, I brought back a ton of information, both organizationally and technologically…
Two things. First, some PR professionals are trying to get ahead of the disruption. Second, what’s the MSM going to say about online advertisers? Can you see a columnist or editor writing: “That darn [insert website name here]. They’ve taken away all our classifieds, and now the car deals are leaving too. What’s next, cell phones?”
It’s not blogging that is disrupting the legacy media establishment–it is online advertising that is causing all the damage.
Foremski also said “Blogging is going to disrupt the public relations industry.”
Excellent post from Tina Vance!
Yesterday, during one of the brief moments where I felt well enough to get off my posterior and do something, my husband and I were bandying about the idea of Batman in Cleveland. It started off as a joke, and then got the “I’m so going to blog this, you know that, right?” We started talking, as only comic book geeks can, about whether or not Bruce Wayne (Batman, for those of you uninitiated to the comic books, cartoons or movies) would ever live in Cleveland.
Sure, there’s plenty Bruce and his Dark Knight alter ego could do here: we’ve got the industrial thing going for us, not to mention biotechnology and plenty of opportunities for charity and non-profit work, so Bruce can make his money (maybe) and throw galas for good. He could put his industrial complexes out in Independence with the other industrial complexes. Just think — he’d bring more jobs to Cleveland than that Quicken guy! We’ve also got plenty of crime and not enough cops, so Batman would have ample activity anytime he wanted it. But it’s not just about the accommodations, it’s also about the city…
