During his yearlong quest for Mayor, Bill Thompson faced the biggest multi-million dollar campaign juggernaut in municipal history. He did so with style, grace and a gentlemanly comportment. The Thompson campaign spent election night at the New York Hilton, where hundreds of supporters packed the ballroom. A Who’s Who of Democratic leadership […]readmore
Bill Thompson grew up on Putnam Avenue between Stuyvesant and Malcolm X Blvd. The journey from those streets to being elected City Comptroller in 2001, managing a staff of more than 700 with a budget of $68 million and being overwhelmingly reelected in 2005, is a long one with middle-class struggles, and successes achieved by […]readmore
The new Africa starts here: how to make the people prosper. If Africa is to thrive, a revolution in thinking is needed — and it must begin out in the farmers’ fields. By Wangari Maathai The Times (London) June 6, 2009 Not long ago I was in Yaoundé, Cameroon, […]readmore