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...potential of becoming economically self-sustainable.”After talking to the Chinese Exploration and Research Society, a non-governmental organization that has invested in yak cheese production facilities in northwestern China for the past two years, Chyau and So decided to launch the two pilot yak social enterprises—“Yashmere” and “Cheese for Change.” Chyau and So believe that both projects will provide local farmers with a viable source of income while preserving the people’s cultural heritage and livelihood. “START...
...while these policy orders passed with little dissent, Kelley disagreed with his colleagues about a pilot program that would provide councillors with research assistants. Though he said he would appreciate the help, he insisted that the city’s money could be better spent...
Decker expressed strong support for the pilot program, arguing that the program would bring equity to the council by providing all councillors with resources currently available only to the mayor and vice-mayor...
...enlist a support network--birth families, friends, in-laws, neighbors, nonprofit and government agencies--capable of interceding before a crisis develops. The results of this early-intervention approach, called Alternative Response, have been impressive. In Olmsted County, one of 20 counties that took part in a three-year pilot project, the recidivism rate for parents who went through the program tumbled from 16.1% in 2002 to just...
...Here are his career highlights, from a White House biography released when he worked in the George H.W. Bush administration: He began his journalism career as an editorial writer at the Greensboro Record in Greensboro, N.C., in 1979, then was an editorial writer at the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk from 1981-82, editorial page editor of the Daily Press in Newport News, Va., from 1982-84, deputy editorial page editor of the Detroit News, which at the time was known for having one of the most conservative editorial pages of any metropolitan dailies in the country, from 1984-87; then...