Archive for February 1st, 2010

Alan Grayson for President

Monday, February 1st, 2010

I just heard about him in the Economist. Harvard educated economist/lawyer/entrepreneur who represents Central Florida in the House of Representatives. Strong backer of health care reform (his master’s thesis was on geriatric health care in the US, and he posts the number of people dying for lack of adequate health care in America on his website).

His other target is the Federal Reserve, which has acknowledged expanding its balance sheet by $1 trillion this year (“printing money”) and has been accused of keeping off balance sheet expansions of up to $9 trillion. One of Grayson’s videos on Youtube on the topic has been viewed 2 million times (here).

He’s on my radar screen.

Castle Theatre is Closed

Monday, February 1st, 2010

The Castle Movie Theatre in New Castle, Indiana closed its doors this weekend. The only movie theatre in a town of 20,000 people. I saw my first movie (Sleeping Beauty), Godzilla, Star Wars and a thousand others here.

I grew up in New Castle – and it was a great place to grow up in the 60′s and 70′s. Since then, the town lost its main employer (a Chrysler auto plant) and with it most of the reason for its existence. There seems to be little in the town to hold people there now. It’s not as bad as Anderson, Indiana; but still not healthy at all.

Where does New Castle belong in a globalized, digital economy? I don’t know either.