We hardly remember when we last took a pen and a paper and wrote a lengthy letter or exam paper or something else. We are limited only to signing the cheque and bill amount slip of the shopping we do. Today our writing has been limited to only signing cheque, bank papers, medical and shopping bill slips. Keypad and keyboard have limited our writing habits and we hardly need a piece of paper and pen to write something. All the writing purposes are fulfilled through the keypad and keyboard at an e… Continue

Some inconvenient truths about competition

by Kellia Ramares

Here is an excerpts of a story that appeared in the New York Times on October 21, 2009. The title of the story was “$13 an hour? 500 sign-up, 1 wins a job”.

"The 34-year-old recruiter decided the fairest approach was simply to start at the beginning, reviewing resumes in the order in which they came in. When she found a desirable candidate, she called to ask a few preliminary questions, before forwarding the name along to Chris Kels… Continue

That's the name of the story Jeff Watson and I have pitched to Spot.us, the marketplace for community-funded investigative journalism. It's an investigation into additives in common foods. We are looking to raise $400 for our work. To view the pitch go to
http://spot.us/pitches/260

Pacifica Radio 2008 Election Center -- election411.org

Published on August 25, 2008 - 3:23pm by Kellia

"Republicans and Democrats, now there's a couple of 4 and 12 teams."
-- Comedian Dennis Miller, doing color commentary during Monday Night Football in 2000.

I was born in 1955. That's over half a century ago. The last convention of either party to need more than one ballot to nominate its candidate was the 1952 Democratic Convention. Before I was born! It was 56 years ago, in f… Continue

Pacifica Radio 2008 Election Center - election411.org

Published on September 4, 2008 - 8:40pm by Kellia

Reforming the U.S. Electoral System

If you really don't like the US electoral system, here are some things you can do.

1) Register to vote, but list yourself as an independent or decline-to-state. If you really feel the need to vote for a major party candidate in a later election and your state requires you to be a member of that party in order to vote in the primary, you can change… Continue