OK. Suggestions for modern WPA and CCC projects.

[Dennis S]

Tutors. Lots of tutors. And, a reading program that is literally "no child left behind."

[mrbigstuff]

education, as in the school system, is where it truly begins. you can't make chicken soup from chicken sh*t, right?

mind you, this is the hardest project of all. but if Obama is truly serious about change, then this is where to begin. (and I have both sides of this divide amongst my family and friends)

[Mac1337]

deckeda wrote:


Come Feb. my wife will be out of a job. Don't know about you, but she'd do any of that stuff for a paycheck. We'd like to KEEP our damn house.

Can't speak for you, but if people do anything for a paycheck as you claim, why do we have millions of illegal migrant workers and at the same time 5 to 7 million unemployed?

[dmann]

I'm on the change.gov email list and just got this about discussion groups they are forming on healthcare issues. I expect we'll see similar programs for other issues (such as the ones mentioned here).

Not sure it will work, but IMHO it is an excellent way to
1. involve the public
2. make it really hard to ignore the public

http://change.gov/page/s/hcdiscussion

DM

[Don Kiyoti]

Preserve, restore, and rehabilitate as many of the original WPA projects as possible.

[mikeylikesit]

There are at least three old WPA Post Office buildings here in the SF Valley. The Valley then was a bunch of orange groves that never would have been eligible for a stand alone building during a regular budgetary process and here they sit still serving the public some seventy-years later.

At least one of the buildings has the original WPA commissioned artist murals on the walls. They look sort of like the murals we used to see in former communist block nations.

[Wags]

Most of the WPA buildings are protected by various historical and other cultural resource management laws. The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 is the primary one, but there are a slew of Federal and State acts that also contribute:

Historic Preservation Laws & Codes

[Greg the dogsitter]

mikeylikesit wrote:
There are at least three old WPA Post Office buildings here in the SF Valley.

I'm blanking; which ones do you mean?

[mikeylikesit]

Canoga Park on Sherman Way, North Hollywood on Chandler and I've misplaced the third. I'll recall it at some point or not.

PS: Chandler has one of the original murals. You'd think you were in East Berlin 40-years ago.