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Why the Debt Ceiling Deal Makes Our No Kid Hungry Strategy More Important
I have received several inquiries as to how the debt ceiling deal and proposed federal budget cuts will affect our...
Avoiding the Truth: The Hypocrisy of Debt Ceiling Deals and Bad Marriages
The debt ceiling deal has exposed our political system to be a lot like a bad marriage that perpetuates itself...
Remembering my turn at in that classic role: summer intern
I’m looking forward to lunch later this week with Share Our Strength’s amazing interns. I came to Washington more tha...
A harsh critique of leaders who won’t use their post powerful tool: rhetorical suasion
In this week’s New Yorker, staff writer George Packer, who is increasingly becoming that rare journalistic voice for the voiceless...
Letter from Goose Rocks Beach Observing Senators and Seals
When we kayak here we almost always paddle out about 200 yards into the ocean and turn right toward the...
At P.S. 20 in NY to Launch Expansion of Summer Meals
Yesterday we joined New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott at P.S. 20 in Manhattan to launch our comprehensive marketing...
Where Freedom Costs The Most
It’s so quiet and peaceful here that bumper stickers boast of the e-mail address GooseRocksBeach.calm. But that may be more...
Tribute to Triumph of Imagination That Lives on at The Barnes Foundation
Many hoped this day would never come but today the Barnes Foundation in Merion, PA, will permanently close the unique...
“How does the story end?” Only time and “the imaginations of unreasonable men” will tell!
I was riding my bike down Kings Highway at Goose Rocks Beach in Maine when I ran into Mr. Welch...