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Just a few days after one of the richest Americans, Warren Buffet, announced that he was going to hand over a lot of his vast fortune to the other richest American's foundation (Bill Gates), New York City Mayor Michael Bloomburg, no slouch in the "rich guy department" himself, announced that he too was committing major ducats to charity. A few others will follow suit, and that's a wonderful thing.

Once upon a time Hawaii (prior 1960) had a great idea about teacher qualifications. There was only one licensing credential. This basic license was valid for a lifetime. There were no bureaucratic renewal fees, as Hawaii felt that competence was lifelong and didn't suddenly expire. Principals developed and required ongoing teacher improvement.

Twenty five years after just running around on a soccer pitch Sunday morning with county employees and after years of working closely with county departments and listening constantly to words like "can't" "why bother" and other such terms that aren't conducive to meaningful change, I have ideas for Pete Kutras on how to shave money from the county budget this year, and it's not looking at non-mandated service, because the preponderance of evidence shows that if county residents don't have access to many of the non-mandated services, we will have more people clogging the mandated systems: county emergency rooms and jails, and the streets.

The story is still jobs. House Speaker John Boehner doesn't

I hope everybody enjoys the Third Street Promenade grand opening

Great ideas fail because of poor execution. The City of Morgan