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A new wrinkle in the Freelance Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook August 31, 2006 CommentA few months back in this space I squibbed a series of blog entries on what I dubbed the "Freelance Economy." The term evolved as American employers continue to cut back on paid benefits that used to be considered de rigueur, such as vacation and health insurance premiums, and move closer to hourly wages.
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Anniversaries abound ...
Tweet Share on Facebook August 29, 2006 Comment (99)Last week in this space, I pondered one of Hurricane Katrina's more bizarre and less well-known legacies: a gender imbalance. The storm and its aftermath of shredded housing and wrecked local economies drove out twice as many young women with children as single men, turning New Orleans into a contemporary Wild West.
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Bore me with your fury, please!!!
Tweet Share on Facebook August 25, 2006 Comment (1)The blogosphere must have been created for brannigans such as this. Forbes.com posts a studiedly atavistic commentary by one Michael Noer called "Don't Marry Career Women." It starts out as follows and descends from there:
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Could New Orleans become the new China?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 23, 2006 Comment (1)Hard to believe that the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's collision with the Gulf Coast is already upon us. Hard, too, to believe that the massive exodus from Katrina's wrath has left an equally massive gender gap in New Orleans.
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Security moms no more?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 21, 2006 CommentPolitical pollsters have a knack for devising catchy phrases to characterize and categorize American voters. Examples from recent elections include the angry white male, the soccer mom, the security mom, and the NASCAR dad.
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Racial insensitivity is multiracial
Tweet Share on Facebook August 18, 2006 CommentVirginia Republican Sen. George Allen and former U.S. Rep. and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young have something in common: a gaping hole in their racial sensitivity screens. And that's a diplomatic interpretation.
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Trickle down effect of women CEOs
Tweet Share on Facebook August 16, 2006 Comment (1)This week, PepsiCo announced that Indra Nooyi will become the company's first female chief executive--advancing her to the rank of No. 2 among female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies rated by revenue. This Indian-born American is second behind Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) CEO Patricia Woertz. Agricultural processor ADM is 56th on the Fortune list, and PepsiCo, the world's second-largest soft-drink company after Coca-Cola Co., is 61st.
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Heightened presidential secrecy
Tweet Share on Facebook August 14, 2006 Comment (13)It's not a pretty picture. In fact, it's a more obscured one. The media are increasingly distanced from this president and his administration, at a time when the media microscope is more desperately needed than ever.
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Scare tactics and birth control
Tweet Share on Facebook August 14, 2006 Comment (2)There they go again!
Even though President Bush's political mastermind, Karl Rove, has been widely discredited for using scare tactics to manipulate voter turnout and elections, ardent followers continue to use them. I opened my E-mail inbox Friday morning to find the following missive from Concerned Women for America, a group founded by Beverly LaHaye, wife of bestselling "Left Behind" series author and evangelical sensation Timothy LaHaye.
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'Smart growth' gets stupid (part two)
Tweet Share on Facebook August 9, 2006 CommentThe New York Times reports such battles are raging in Washington, D.C., Austin, Texas, and elsewhere and describes one such fight brewing in a New York City borough: "Last month in Brooklyn, when a state development agency unveiled a long-awaited environmental impact study of the proposed Atlantic Yards project, critics complained that their worst fears had been realized. The developer, Forest City Ratner Companies, wants to plop more than a dozen buildings as high as 62 stories onto 22 acres near downtown Brooklyn, where a mix of vacant lots, low-rise apartments, abandoned buildings, and condominiums now sit. The developer says that the massive residential, office, and arena complex would bring housing and jobs to a borough in need of both."
