Some have said that being also to live with contradictions and paradoxes is an indication of maturity or intelligence. Well, maybe. However I am still more than disappointed about recent NYC Council actions. As Haberman wrote in the NYC on the 18th of December: The City Council killed plans for a shopping mall inside the [...]
On radio news today I heard of a conflict regarding a development project in one of the NYC boroughs.
Developers want to a convert a property into a mall however the community is demanding that workers in the mall will be guaranteed a living wage. What’s a living wage? According to the report around $10 or [...]
In Thomas Friedman’s NYT op-ed about the Afghanistan work last week, he expresses skepticism about the increase of troops targeted for deployment there. In his discussion he states that authoritative dictates rarely change behavior.
“People do not change when you tell them they should: they change when their context tells them they must.”
This is as true for [...]