Miscellaneous

Companies have advertised ... that they're an equal opportunity company, and yet they're having difficulty finding the talented people.

Companies have advertised ... that they're an equal opportunity company, and yet they're having difficulty finding the talented people.

Public hospitals may become an endangered species. Not only are public hospitals disappearing from inner cities across the country, they read more

Public hospitals may become an endangered species. Not only are public hospitals disappearing from inner cities across the country, they are disappearing from the suburbs as well.

But we did get the general sense that they were either shutting down, facing a major downsizing in operations, or read more

But we did get the general sense that they were either shutting down, facing a major downsizing in operations, or being consolidated.

While we all may read more about the impact of public hospital closures on inner cities, the fact is we read more

While we all may read more about the impact of public hospital closures on inner cities, the fact is we are also seeing the potential for an impending access crisis in suburbs with high-poverty populations. These high-poverty suburbs exist disproportionately in California, Texas, and other areas in the south.

But the bottom line is every mayor wants to make their city safer,

But the bottom line is every mayor wants to make their city safer,

[Despite the lopsided primary results, Archer cautioned his supporters not to take the general election for granted.] We've come too read more

[Despite the lopsided primary results, Archer cautioned his supporters not to take the general election for granted.] We've come too far, built too many bridges, taken too many steps to be turned around, ... Something good is happening here.

[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, read more

[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, which accounts for as much as a quarter of the Democratic-primary total. So he is courting the party's most loyal voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration's empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as] very un-Al Gore, ... The Vice President will not have any problem connecting with ethnic minorities.

We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground.

We're ecstatic that we got things off the ground.

Chemical toilets were a luxury.

Chemical toilets were a luxury.

It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings.

It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings.