I have the privilege of serving on North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s Commission on Inclusion with a remarkable group of people committed to equity and inclusive excellence. One of those people is Lydia Lavelle, JD, mayor of Carrboro, a town that exemplifies inclusive excellence. Today, she and the Town of… Read More
Category Archive: Government
Health, safety of people in conflict zones must be protected
Loyalty matters, in word and deed CNN recently featured a compelling story in the form of an open letter to Kurdish soldiers from the grateful wife of an active-duty American Special Operations soldier first deployed to the Middle East in 2003. She wrote about the profound impact of the help… Read More
Support the free press
We can’t take it for granted The New York Times on Sept. 23 carried the text of a speech by publisher A. G. Sulzberger, given at Brown University, titled, “The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World.” He documented how, in multiple countries, journalists are being threatened, harassed, thrown in… Read More
Evidence: A critical basis for policy making…really
Effective government employees and advisors who rely on facts and data should not be ignored Over the past 40 years, great advances have been made in developing the knowledge base about how to assess evidence. Opinion is not evidence. The disregard and even contempt for evidence as a basis for… Read More
Bad times in US for protected lands, species
Oxbow Bend Sunrise (Grand Teton National Park). Photo by Ken Lane via Flickr / Creative Commons. Unrelenting push for rollbacks on environment Since being elected in 2016, the current president has been accused of… Read More