- January 27, 2008I've written about stylistically bad language from government RFPs, but more common than the outright bad is the silly, the…
- January 23, 2008"New Voices Of Philanthropy"* is running an occasional series in which they invite bloggers involved in the nonprofit world to…
- January 22, 2008I noted earlier in Zombie Funding that programs can dwindle from a huge amount of available money to virtually nothing,…
- January 16, 2008In The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Alex Ross says: Studio heads were confident that Stravinsky's name…
- January 11, 2008I realize that I could collect examples of bad English from the Federal Register all day long and that doing…
- January 8, 2008Roberta Stevens commented on "Writing Needs Assessments: How to Make it Seem Like the End of the World" by saying…
- January 4, 2008A previous post linked to a Wall Street Journal post on charities; now the paper released a full article (may…
- January 2, 2008Drug use, like healthcare and a number of other modern political background noises, offer endless fodder for debate and study,…
- December 27, 2007Hot on the trail of yesterday's post about L.A. gangs and statistics, the New York Times published "Los Angeles Combating…
- December 26, 2007As Isaac wrote, it almost never hurts to claim gang activity in a proposed service area ("[. . . f]ind…
