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February 10, 2009
This is Elkhart.
And this is Elkhart high on Obama. Like my beloved alma mater hundreds of miles away, Elkhart, Indiana is a small but serious socially conservative community of reasonable men and very smart women that works hard to produce young adults who may some day take their places as high-functioning members of the ultra-bourgeoisie. Just kidding, mainly. WAC? has northern Indiana blood, twice lived near Elkhart as a child, and is practically a homey. Speaks fluent Hoosier.
This is the real Midwest, though. Obama didn't do well in Elkhart in November. So right now, it's the perfect town to pitch your $800 billion idea. See Bloomberg: "Obama Adopts Elkhart as Everytown in Pitch for Stimulus Plan". Excerpt:
He mobilized an army of people in the American heartland who cheered at scripted applause lines with the ways of Washington as an all-purpose villain.
Then he used his first primetime news conference last night not so much to present new arguments or numbers as to invoke the plight of Elkhart, Indiana, a recession-ravaged town of 52,000 people with an unemployment rate that has more than tripled in a year to 15.3 percent. He visited there yesterday morning and adopted it as a symbol for his appeal. [more]
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (2)
The one-stop e-Discovery shop?
Cases are won or lost at trial on discovery. So in between projects we've had an eye out for a "one-stop" e-discovery resource for business and law. You know, something competent, vigilant and complete perched out there in all the digital clutter? See Gabe’s Guide to the e-Discovery Universe, started in March 2008. This may be it--we are not sure yet--if it can cover and link to: (1) developments in the discovery and e-discovery rules, (2) new cases under Rules 26, 34 and 37, and (3) the better e-discovery sites popping up at the larger firms (some of which are excellent). Not easy but we'd love D.C.'s Gabe Acevedo to try. Gabe's Guide now includes as topics Discovery News, Second Requests in M&A, Foreign Corrupt Practice Act, Subprime Litigation, Technology, and Outsourcing and Offshoring.
Posted by JD Hull at 10:24 PM | Comments (1)