After six months of Stimulus Bill madness, I felt like Bob Dylan in Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues: “I do believe I’ve had enough.” So my wife and I decamped for two weeks in Paris and Berlin, leaving Jake with a whip and a chair to deal with hordes of would-be grant applicants wanting “some [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Travel'
Graffiti, Windmills, CAP Agencies, and an Answer to the Question As to Whether This is 1975 or 1965
September 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Government · Grants · Travel
Talk of the Nation, The Department of Education’s Arne Duncan, and Stimulus Slowness
June 19th, 2009 · No Comments
On the way to Seliger + Associates’ new Tucson offices last week, I listened to Neal Conan conduct an interview with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that illustrates problems with both Stimulus Bill (ARRA) passthrough funding and media coverage of contentious issues.
Issue One: Stimulus Bill Distribution
Conan said that education stimulus funding to states had become [...]
Tags: Government · Grants · Stimulus · Travel
Seliger + Associates Hitches Up the Wagons and Heads Out to Where the Pavement Turns to Sand
June 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments
We’ve more or less completed our move to sunnier climes in Tucson, AZ. This is the fourth location for Seliger + Associates in 16 and a half years in business, starting in Danville, CA, before migrating to Bellevue and then Mill Creek, WA. So it’s goodbye to coffee and mold and hello to incredible Sonoran [...]