All Posts Tagged With: "Ed Rendell"
How the Army Corps of Engineers Stays in Business
It comes up with loony projects, has them embraced by pork-loving congress critters, develops phony economic benefits analysis, and then plays hardball, using people like Pennsylvania’s amoral governor as its cheerleaders. Michael Grunwald wrote a brilliant 5-piece series for the Washington Post back in 2000 chronicling how, in one Corps survey, the Chessie ran east [...]
26Oct2009 | El Somnambulo | 2 comments | Continued
Sunday Papers: How ‘Fast’ Eddie Rendell Made Sure Budget Avoided Natural Gas Pains
We all heard Gov. Ed Rendell’s (D-Comcast) lament that everyone had to share in Pa.’s budgetary pain, including the arts community, which was decimated by budget cuts while the big sports teams and movie theatres remained untouched. His lips were moving, so everyone knew that he was lying. When it comes to the natural gas [...]
25Oct2009 | El Somnambulo | 16 comments | Continued
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Sept. 20 Edition
LEAD STORY: McClatchy Papers: Anti-Government Protests Racism By Another Name
Of course it is, and it has been since the beginning of the Obama Administration, but the ‘respectable’ media has failed to tell the story. Until now:
At about the same time (Nov. 5 after Obama had been declared the winner), newspaper Web sites were filled with [...]
20Sep2009 | El Somnambulo | 6 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
