Mark your calendars for Jules White's debut Los Angeles exhibition at the Gregory Way Gallery (245 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, 90212, Phone: 818 577-3506) which opens March 26, 2011.
White's bold photo collages of California, Japan, Switzerland and Alabama are Hockneyesque...
Posted January 25, 2011 | 16:34:03 (EST)
Last week, Sargent Shriver, President Kennedy's brother-in-law, passed away, at the age of 95. President Clinton said at the funeral that Sarge was the living embodiment of Kennedy's quintessential challenge, "Ask not what your country can do for you." President Obama described the founding father of the Peace Corps as...
Posted July 28, 2010 | 10:06:27 (EST)
Tomorrow afternoon, when Senate Appropriators meet to mark up the State and Foreign Operations bill, they should give the Peace Corps the full $446.15 million requested by the Obama administration and endorsed by 32 Senators. This 11.5% increase would create over 1,000 much-needed volunteer jobs in 2011 for young people...
Posted July 1, 2010 | 11:45:19 (EST)
Yesterday, Rep. Nita Lowey (NY-18) approved a $46.15 million funding increase for the Peace Corps in 2011. Working with a significantly reduced overall funding mark, Rep. Lowey and her Republican and Democrat peers on the subcommittee, including Representatives Kay Granger (R-TX), Denny Rehberg (R-MT), Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL), and Barbara...
Posted June 29, 2010 | 16:37:12 (EST)
Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 30, 2010, at 4 PM in H-140 of the Capitol Building in the United States Congress, Rep. Nita Lowey (NY-18) will make one of the most important decisions of her career. On that day, the appropriations subcommittee which she chairs, will decide whether or not...
Posted January 28, 2010 | 20:05:24 (EST)
Thank you for all you did in 2009.
Because of you, for the first time since 2002, a Peace Corps re-authorization bill was passed by the Congress, with a very bipartisan vote (318 to 106). It passed because of 132 co-sponsors on the Peace Corps Expansion Act.
Ultimately, the final...
Posted December 3, 2009 | 22:39:16 (EST)
Dear President Obama,
There was a time when the Peace Corps was just an idea. Today it is a force -- far more than a gesture of good will. Since 1961, over 60,000 volunteers in Africa, for instance, have made immeasurable contributions in fighting HIV/AIDS, bringing potable water access and...
Posted January 21, 2009 | 22:37:35 (EST)
I marched in the inaugural parade yesterday, and there are three moments that will stay with me forever.
The first recollection happened around 3 PM. Someone had just read on her Blackberry that something was wrong with Ted Kennedy. The Peace Corps volunteers, carrying majestic 10-foot flags from 139 countries...
Posted March 11, 2011 | 09:49:02 (EST)