: About Me

My name is Nick Clark, Western NY, USA. For the most part I have been in communications, from reporting/producing for public broadcasting and writing Op-Eds for various news papers to becoming a teacher of Information Science and Learning Technologies.

My interests range from politics and psychology to learning theory and cosmology - which is to say I have a broad range of interests.

I hope this is enough to give you a glimpse of me and the who I am.

My passion is ...

Learning - how to do it, how it happens and how it reflects the way we think.

I know too much about ...

Just about everything :-)

My parents always told me ...

Stand up straight and brush your teeth ... and a lot of other stuff, too.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a cowboy and never have to wear a suit - not a cowboy but I wear jeans all the time

My favorite memory ...

With a bunch of others, saving the Manassass, Va. Civil War battlefield from a big-time developer

Why I write ...

To discover what's beneath my immediate perceptions and gut reactions

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

NOW: The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud (I am fan of HP, His Dark Materials, LotRings, etc.)

My first job ...

Paperboy

My best moment ...

Getting married

My inspiration ...

Tikkun Olam

Politics, News & Issues > US Elections US elections 2008: Democratic candidate Barak Obama's ideas for overhauling the economy

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Start Spreadin' the Wealth ... er ... News Enough of the "spreading the wealth" already. Barack Obama had it right with Joe the Plumber. In the more than 30 years since Ronald Regan pronounced that "government is the problem", what we have seen is a dramatic constriction of wealth. Despite the glowing economic numbers that can be touted for the three decades since, the fact remains that for most of us Jolene Sixpacks and Joe Plumbers, our wealth has dwindled. How many of us are there? Well, according to David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, reporter and Rochester, NY resident ...

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