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By DAVID BROOKS The Democrats could be heading toward a defeat of historic proportions in November, but it is possible to imagine a scenario in which things might have turned out differently: On Dec. 16, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama and his ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/opinion/03brooks.html?ref=general&src=me&pagewanted=print-2010-09-04 topics: CONG LD OBAMA RHETORIC ALLIES COURAGE PUB-OP)

September always brings a burst of hope for the public service. Students show up at universities ready to learn, the federal fiscal year is about to begin, agencies are ready to hire, and the latest surveys of federal employees arrive. I know our s... (http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/light/2010/09/make-it-easier-to-say-yes-to-federal-service.html?hpid=smartliving-2010-09-03 topics: PUB-SRV GVT-MGT UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

SUM["The big plans quietly faded, the blueprints were rolled up and stashed away, and the city grew back organically, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, the way its people wanted. When I was in New Orleans this May, I was dumbstruck by... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/20/AR2010082002125_pf.html-2010-09-03 topics: LOUISIANA)

By Lisa Rein Saturday, August 7, 2010; A01 Here are some lessons Spencer Clark has learned in three years working for the federal government: When he goes to boring meetings, he sits at the table so no one will think he's a slacker. He knows when... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/06/AR2010080606461_pf.html-2010-09-03 topics: GVT-MGT UNTAPPED-CAPACITY JOBS FED-GVT YOUTH)

by charles Lane Not every American who marches behind a hateful crackpot is a hateful crackpot. The peaceful, thoughtful throng that assembled for Louis Farrakhan at the Million Man March in 1995 -- including a young Barack Obama -- proved that poin... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/08/why_obama_doesnt_get_glenn_bec.html-2010-09-02 topics: TEA-PARTY)

sum[ European public opinion, driven by economic fears and nationalism, turns away from goal of Eur. integration.] By Charles Kupchan Sunday, August 29, 2010; B03 The European Union is dying -- not a dramatic or sudden death, but one so slow and st... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/27/AR2010082702138_pf.html-2010-09-02 topics: EUR COOP-LIMITS INTL-ORGS PUB-OP)

New Orleans is rebounding well from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and could conceivably end up on a stronger economic footing than before the storm — if the city redevelops in the right way. For that to happen, federal, stat... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/opinion/02thu1.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-09-02 topics: NONPROFIT-ROLE LOUISIANA HOUS MENTAL-ILLNESS DOMESTIC-NEEDS HOMELESS)

By KARL E. CASE Boston IF you read the coverage of the latest figures on the sales of existing homes from the National Association of Realtors, you may well have come to the conclusion that the American dream is dead. It is indeed worrisome that s... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/opinion/02case.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-09-02 topics: HOUS RECESSION KEY ECON CONSUMER PUB-OP INSTABILITY STATS)

Composting is easy and fun. Kitchen scraps, leaves and lawn clippings are allowed to decompose naturally and they become a healthy, nutrient-rich and beneficial soil for the garden. In this instructable, I will show how I made a spinning double dru... (http://www.instructables.com/id/Double-Decker-Drum-Composter/-2010-09-02 topics: AGRICULTURE SOLUTIONS GARDENING PUB-INFO WEBSITE)

433 - I counted on my feet. I wanted to meet people in the flesh and give them a chance to meet me.... (-2010-09-02 topics: LD CHARACTER CIVIL-RIGHTS SOC-MOVEMENT CMTY-ORGANIZING BK)

ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2008) — "Think globally, act locally" makes for a nice bumper sticker -- but is it an effective policy for coping with global climate change? Can local actions make a difference in a process principally driven by worldwide ... (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080217102119.htm-2010-09-02 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS)

By David A. Fahrenthold and Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, September 1, 2010; A1 The lessons that could help keep 33 trapped Chilean miners safe and sane during their months underground were learned at desperate times in iso... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/31/AR2010083106120_pf.html-2010-09-02 topics: PSYCH COOP KEY)

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN sum["the only way to fix our schools is not with a Superman or a super-theory. No, it’s with supermen and superwomen pushing super-hard to assemble what we know works: better-trained teachers working with the best methods und... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/opinion/25friedman.html?ref=columnists&pagewanted=print-2010-09-02 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS WISDOM KEY-A RSC)

By DAVID GREISING As some of the nation’s biggest financial institutions rushed to assemble a $150 million bailout of ShoreBank last week, people knowledgeable about the bank’s image as a successful, crusading lender in some of the country’s ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/business/23cncshorebank.html-2010-09-01 topics: BANK RECESSION MGT NO-EASY-ANSWERS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION RISK SOLUTIONS)

Dr Brian Jude and Associates present.... LEADERSHIP – INFLUENCING PEOPLE UNDER YOUR DIRECTION & CARE A Dynamic Morning Seminar Effective leaders are required to improve staff performance, and to influence or oversee the workplace and workf... (-2010-09-01 topics: LD CONCEPTS)

By Ruth Marcus Wednesday, September 1, 2010; A17 I left the Glenn Beck rally worried that I didn't have much of a story. It was all revival meeting, no political fireworks. The news reports accurately likened the atmosphere to that of a church pi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/31/AR2010083104555_pf.html-2010-09-01 topics: TEA-PARTY)

By Dana Milbank Sunday, August 29, 2010; A19 There is a telling anecdote in Glenn Beck's 2003 memoir about how the cable news host was influenced by the great fantasist Orson Welles. To travel between performances in Manhattan, Beck recounts, Well... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/27/AR2010082702359_pf.html-2010-09-01 topics: TEA-PARTY)

By DAVID BROOKS The U.S. venture into Iraq was a war, but it was also a nation-building exercise. America has spent $53 billion trying to reconstruct Iraq, the largest development effort since the Marshall Plan. So how’s it working out? On the ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/opinion/31brooks.html-2010-08-31 topics: IRAQ F-PLY PROGRESS-POSSIBLE)

The Healthy Communities Network® is a customizeable web-based information system designed provide access to high-quality data and decision support, helping to improve health indicator tracking, best practice sharing and community development in ord... (http://www.healthycommunitiesinstitute.com/index.html-2010-08-31 topics: ALLIES NCCS KEY-A WEBSITE RSC)

By Greg Jaffe Monday, August 30, 2010; A1 In the summer of 2006, Maj. Walt Cooper was convinced that his Special Forces team's work was only contributing to the violence spiraling out of control in Baghdad. Cooper and his soldiers were training a... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/29/AR2010082903891.html-2010-08-30 topics: IRAQ WISDOM HUBRIS F-PLY PROGRESS)

By David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 30, 2010; A1 On Thursday, some of the country's most respected environmental groups - in the midst of their biggest political fight in two decades - sent a group of activists to Mi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/29/AR2010082903879_pf.html-2010-08-30 topics: ENV ADVOCACY NONPROFIT PUB-OP)

By Chrystia Freeland Monday, August 30, 2010; A13 Forget the "Ground Zero mosque," Michelle Obama's Spanish holiday and even the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. When future historians look back to the summer of 2010, the event they are most likel... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/29/AR2010082902898_pf.html-2010-08-30 topics: CHINA CAPITALISM DEMOCRACY)

by Greg Allen After the interstate system was built, planners, developers and commuters found it was not just a good way to travel between states, but also within them — from city to city, from home to work, or maybe just a few blocks. Interstat... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129475747&ps=cprs-2010-08-29 topics: TRANS URB SUBURBS KEY ADVOCACY BLCK)

by Carolyn Beeler Maureen Quigley-Hogan is the next generation of call center worker. Wearing pink slippers and sitting at her desk in her home office in Virginia, she takes a call from a woman in New Jersey who has a question about her credit card... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129406588&ps=cprs-2010-08-29 topics: JOBS GLOBALIZATION)

The Chicago News Cooperative produces public-interest journalism focused on Chicago, its politics and policy, culture and the arts, and the diverse communities of the metropolitan area. We publish in The New York Times on Friday and Sunday, the firs... (http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/-2010-08-29 topics: JOURNALISM NONPROFIT-INNOVATION ALLIES KEY)

By JESSICA REAVES June 20, 2010 Some people’s stories emerge organically — around a dinner table, on a long car trip or on a rainy afternoon. But most of us need a bit of a nudge before we will face down the Big Questions: Who are we? What do w... (http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/in-pilsen-neighborhood-collecting-latino-stories/-2010-08-29 topics: DIALOGUE CMTY ALLIES SOLUTIONS ARTS)

By Blake Hall Sunday, August 29, 2010; B01 I met Roy in early 2007. I was the leader of a reconnaissance platoon of scouts and snipers in Iraq and was just back from a two-week leave in the United States. Roy was our new interpreter. That night, m... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/27/AR2010082702133.html-2010-08-29 topics: IRAQ WAR KEY STORY CHARACTER SACRIFICE TEAM POIGNANT)

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