REPI-based evaluation for resource-efficient and environment-friendly society in China.
Abstract It is an inevitable option for China to build a resource-efficient and environment-friendly (REEF) society, which is determined by China's realistic conditions. Whereas improving the resource and environmental performance (REP) is the heart of and key to building an REEF society. In this paper, we present...

Democrats in disarray under Rivera.
Democratic committee people throughout Niagara County have been increasingly dismayed by the erratic antics of party chairman Dan Rivera, and the committee's longtime vice-chair, Diane Roberts of Lewiston, has resigned her position in disgust. According to a letter sent by Roberts to committee members explaining her resignation,...

What would George Bailey Do? Any plan to right the housing market should put families first.
HENRY POTTER: Have you put any real pressure on these people of yours to pay those mortgages? PETER BAILEY: Times are bad, Mr. Potter. A lot of these people are out of work. POTTER: Then foreclose! BAILEY: I can't do that. These families...

Detoothing the loan sharks: five ways' to put the brakes on predatory lending.
'What happens to a dream deferred?" Langston Hughes asks in his classic poem "Harlem." Whether it is the dream of owning a home, paying for college, or making that final payment on a ear. When the way of the world puts our dreams out of reach, what are the...

Seeking the 'fair balance': how "moving money" into community investments can lead to social change.
Writing about Paul's second letter to the church at Corinth, Bible scholar Ched Myers points out that Paul quotes Exodus 16:18 to draw forward the "abundance and limits" lesson of the manna story in relation to giving in the Corinthian church. Paul writes, "it is a question of fair...

At Liberty to go long: Liberty Mutual's reinsurance chief extols freedom from those quarterly crosshairs and slams efforts to put the federal government in the catastrophe risk business.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Summary * For J. Eric Brosius liberty is just another word not having to have answer every three months to Wall Street analysts. * While a decade ago banks were merging with insurance companies Liberty Mutual resisted the trend, deciding instead...

Argus at 96: a proud history.
When the St. Louis Argus celebrates its 96th anniversary with a dinner on April 26, readers familiar with its history could look at a recent issue and say that not much has changed since its founding in 1912. The April 17-23 Argus included an op-ed piece by...

Trillium Foundation, Ontario.
800-263-2887 Anishinabe Shooniyaawakamik c/o Wasaya Wee-Chee-Way-Win Inc. c/o Wasaya Group. To pilot a credit union in Bearskin Lake First Nation and provide financial education in Oji-Cree. Once evaluated, the model may be replicated in other First Nations communities in Northern Ontario. $345,500 over three years. ...

An industry of innovative ideas ... and now, for a totally unscientific, in no particular order, listing of ideas whose time has come, or that never went out of fashion.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Old ideas can seem innovative after being shelved for decades in the risk management world. In 1752, Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Innovator, helped to launch America's first mutual insurance company, The Philadelphia Contributorship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire. In...

Subprime fallout: Congress, industry groups respond to rising mortgage foreclosures.
At an April 17 hearing to explore possible responses to the rising home mortgage foreclosure rates, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, heard testimony from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Administration, the mortgage industry and consumer organizations. The hearing was held to...