Archive for April, 2008

Colbert Report and green-collar jobs.

Neat! Good interview with my old boss, Van Jones, about the potential for green-collar jobs to revitalize the economy. As a sidenote when I was working on this two years ago and Van was talking about green-collar jobs, people thought we were sort of bonkers, or hippies. Seeing this on The Colbert Report as something [...]

The 3rd Corey is hotter than the other two

It’s Friday night; I’m home alone drinking red wine and watching Bill Moyers interview Corey Booker, messianic Newark Mayor (and nomad). Perhaps it is because I’m flipping between the interview and 1998’s incomprehensibly sexy Velvet Goldmine, but I just fell in love with Corey Booker. He talks about great “urban innovators,” changing the ways cities [...]