August 2011
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Welcome to my blog
When I left the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as Deputy Secretary, I said I was retiring from HUD and public service. I entered public service because I loved the discussion and implementation of public policy at the local, state and national level. Through this blog, I intend to continue one of the things I enjoy — the discussion of public policy and the challenges facing...
Courage
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does...
This is a reposting of a blog that I wrote on August, 2008. It seems timely in light of the Seattle Times front page article titled “Costly Sewer Project May Have Little Benefit.”
Stop in the name of love
…before you break my heart, think it over … seems to be the tune that the Puget Sound, Washington State Department of Ecology (DOE), and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
