by Dave Johnson | Aug 14, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
I had the opportunity to tour a steel plant outside of Pittsburgh yesterday. (I am here for the Netroots Nation convention.) The word that keeps coming into my mind is "intense." I experienced intense heat, intense colors in the molten steel, and intense faces on the...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 11, 2009 | Blog
Campaign for America’s Future has released a report, Pittsburgh —The Rest of the Story (pdf file, 12 pages). This report tells the story of "Pittsburgh's transition from the old to the new." A lot is happening in Pittsburgh this summer and fall. Netroots Nation is...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 10, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
President Obama, at the "Three Amigos" summit today in Mexico, responded to Canadian and Mexican complaints about the “Buy American Clause” in the stimulus package, reiterated that the clause is legal within existing trade agreements and does not threaten our trading...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 6, 2009 | Blog
When things are going wrong it is often good practice to go back and review the basics, and start again. In baseball you go back to batting and fielding practice. To master a musical instrument you practice your scales every day. Things have gone wrong with our...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 4, 2009 | Blog
Can one be called “protectionist” just for pointing out when other countries are being smart? Maybe so. I’ll get to that in a minute, but first… Language has tremendous power. People like George Lakoff and Drew Westin, who study the use of language in political...
