fmr consult. w community engagement comms & collab Biz & tech enthusiast. Advocate/for social issues. now major gifts for affordable housing Jerzee Girl.
Fraunces Tavern in New York City is the oldest bar and restaurant in New York City. Founded before the Declaration of Independence, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and other Founding Fathers once partied inside.
The guy who created Fortnite (Tim Sweeney) has been quietly buying up U.S. forests to save them from developers.
He has spent over $200M to buy 50,000+ acres of wilderness in North Carolina, using permanent legal protections to block any future logging or building.
President Bush's message on America 250.
"One of the things about the 250th is the fact that you can worship freely without the government telling you how to worship, speak in a public square without being jailed, a press that's willing to hold the powerful to account.
If you don't like what's going on, vote. Be a citizen not a spectator. Participate in the process."
We hold the power of the purse and a Congressional appropriation is a federal law. Thus the president must take care to faithfully execute all budget appropriations. Trump has violated the Constitution by shutting down USAID and now withholding $19 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid. His refusal to write the checks for USAID’s lifesaving global programs against malaria, HIV/AIDS and hunger is a deadly form of law-breaking.
The federal in Canada will purchase up to 2,200 unsold, newly built condos across British Columbia to convert them into affordable housing, per the Globe
“This is a 5-alarm fire, and we need people, everyone, to first of all, understand the implications of these new policies and make sure that you reach out and make your voice heard,” said Carolyn Bertozzi, Nobel laureate, about the new OMB rule.
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I simply don't understand how the US does not have any mechanisms to stop Trump's physical destruction of Washington, DC.
This country appears completley lawless.
I’m running for Montgomery County Executive because our hardest problems won’t solve themselves.
My @ggwash column on housing, leadership, and what’s at stake in this election: https://t.co/T22phNjJNZ.