In my current work, I’m a management consultant and internal performance auditor for a state agency. Simply put, I analyze existing state programs and service functions; I investigate their strengths and weaknesses, and identify strategies that can help them to be the best they can be. I love my job. Finding ways to make stuff [...]
The Cosmopolitan Urbanist
Ideas, People, Communities
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Aug 27
Thank You for Your Contribution and Service
I, like many others, have had a slight obsession with the Kennedys. The Kennedy Family, for longer than I’ve been alive, has been a cornerstone in American politics and popular culture. My obsession started years ago, and developed as I tried to understand how so many fighters for the common good could spring from such [...]
Aug 11
THE best explanation of the credit crisis that I’ve seen.
I’ve heard everyone- professors, media, finance people, government officials, non-profit leaders (all with their many-armed diagrams) try to explain how the housing/credit crisis all started. Best case scenario, those presentations are boring. Worst case scenario, they leave you more confused than when you started! Today, I discovered this video, done by a graduate student, explaining [...]
