Wednesday, June 5, 2013

NYSE Roundtable: Officials Talk Lessons Learned from Sandy | PropertyCasualty360

NYSE Roundtable: Officials Talk Lessons Learned from Sandy | PropertyCasualty360

Two Pivotal Elections: What The 1977 Mayoral Race Can Tell Us About 2013 | Elections

 “You go to the boroughs outside Manhattan and you hear about an unresponsive government that took care of the affluent on Wall Street and did not help them,” Sherrill said. “I think a candidate who makes an appeal to frustrated working-class people that he or she will stand up for against the relatively well off who saw a much more rapid recovery can do very well in the parts of the city that were devastated and haven’t bounced back. With the rising inequality, there is a strong sense that no one is looking out for ‘people like me.’ I would not be surprised to hear Anthony Weiner take that up. I would not be surprised if the election turned on personality and style more than the issues. I think an angry candidate can do very well, I’m afraid.”

Two Pivotal Elections: What The 1977 Mayoral Race Can Tell Us About 2013 | Elections

CUNY Law Community Economic Development Clinic Partners with Mondragon Corporation on Union Coops – CUNY School of Law

This is big news.  Some of these folks will be at the LAWCHA conference that starts tomorrow at the Center for Worker Education. 

CUNY Law Community Economic Development Clinic Partners with Mondragon Corporation on Union Coops – CUNY School of Law

Done Right, Eliminating Food Deserts Result in Community Oases -- Rooflines

Nice short piece on communty economic development and food system: example from Pittsburgh particularly intriguing: brought in a grocery store that hires local people and the land is owned by a nonprofit which works in the community!