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Tourism: My Play Is Your Pay
How has tourism fared during this economic downturn?
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Perhaps Baby Einstein Is Not The Work of The Devil After All
A Baby Einstein founder contacts me in response to my last column.
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Fix Congress First Should Be Second
Lawrence Lessig and Joe Trippi believe the best way to fix Congress is to shut off the money. I wish it was that easy. Why is it harder? Look in the mirror.
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The National Debt: A Dizzying Amount of Zeros
The national debt is $12 trillion and climbing. In eight years Bush 43 added $4 trillion. Obama's on course to add $26 trillion by 2019. Are you concerned?
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Tourism: My Play Is Your Pay
How has tourism fared during this economic downturn?
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Perhaps Baby Einstein Is Not The Work of The Devil After All
A Baby Einstein founder contacts me in response to my last column.
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Fix Congress First Should Be Second
Lawrence Lessig and Joe Trippi believe the best way to fix Congress is to shut off the money. I wish it was that easy. Why is it harder? Look in the mirror.
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The National Debt: A Dizzying Amount of Zeros
The national debt is $12 trillion and climbing. In eight years Bush 43 added $4 trillion. Obama's on course to add $26 trillion by 2019. Are you concerned?
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The Copenhagen Conspiracy: What's In It For The Scientists?
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Dispatches From The Heartland by John Creighton
Community life and leadership lessons
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Faith: The Flip Side by Allison Addicott
How faith and politics intersect around the globe.
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Making Change by Donna Rae Scheffert
People who get involved in helping others and making a difference.
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Public Square Today by Brad Rourke
What's happening in public life -- and why it matters.
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Teaming Up For Success by Carla Ledbetter
People celebrating good things that happen through successful teamwork.
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Truth Be Told by Carla Harper
Thinking a little deeper about our lives, our country and our values.
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Went West by Sutton Stokes
A transplanted easterner reflects on culture, politics, and the pursuit of happiness from his new vantage point in the Rocky Mountain West.
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Young, Willing and Able by Angela Hopp
Emerging leaders accomplishing great things.
Brad Rourke writes Brad Rourke's Blog and is president of the Mannakee Circle Group, a firm that helps organizations engage better with the public. He is a leader in understanding how public-facing organizations can engage better. Rourke has been blogging about public life since before the term "blog" was invented. His articles are read by thought leaders in the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors.
Rourke is the founder of Rockville Central, a site he began in June 2007 to serve as a test bed for different methods of engaging the public. Over slightly more than two years, Rockville Central has become the second most-read local blog in Maryland and political leaders routinely turn to Rockville Central to talk directly to citizens and discuss important issues facing the city.
Rourke has written numerous articles and op-ed pieces, appearing in print publications such as The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and others. He contributed a chapter on the ethics of citizenship to Shades of Gray (Brookings Institution, 2002). He is listed in Who's Who in America. Rourke is a Los Angeles native who grew up in Detroit, went to school in Berkeley, met his wife in Los Angeles, moved to Maine, and now lives in Rockville, Maryland with his wife, Andrea Jarrell, and two children.