It’s hard to beat the excitement surrounding American politics this year, but West Virginia isn’t standing still either. Saturday was the filing deadline for candidates in the Mountain State, and the big surprise was Anne Barth’s entry into the race for the state’s Second Congressional District. Ms. Barth has served as state director for [...]
Fifteen years ago, America had a long discussion about how to implement universal healthcare coverage. The proposal developed by Hillary Clinton, dubbed Hillarycare by its critics, certainly had its weaknesses, but the nuclear weapon that annihilated not only her proposal, but the entire discussion itself — and ensured the topic wouldn’t come up again [...]
A year ago, I had more than a few theories for what steps Kaiser Permanente needed to take to rebuild integrity and restore accountability at the organization. I kept most of my specific ideas quiet, though, because I recognized that I needed to focus on calling for broad and reasoned change and improvement, not [...]
And now, for a programming note.
Update: Wednesday morning, day two. Most of you visiting between noon yesterday and sometime late last night got the lovely “Site Temporarily Unavailable” message. Sorry about that. You can read more about why from InfoWorld. In the meantime, in case something else goes wrong before I [...]
On Tuesday, I posted about Jim Cayne was resigning as chief executive from Bear Stearns, the first exit of the four “top execs” I said might soon be sent packing (see the original post from back in November). Today, Angelo Mozilo sold his (apparently nearly bankrupt) Countrywide Financial to Bank of America (the Wall [...]
I finally fell asleep around midnight. Yesterday was amazing. Going from a double-digit gap in the polls to win the primary in New Hampshire must be invigorating for Hillary’s campaign. I’m excited to see how the next several weeks go, since there’s still a lot more that’s going to happen before we [...]
Two months ago, I joined quite a few other people in saying it was about time James Cayne resign from Bear Stearns. Bloomberg is reporting that an announcement will likely come this morning, confirming that Cayne will be stepping down.
In my post back in November, I lumped Cayne in with three other chief executives: [...]