Why McCain Failed
Simple brand identity confusion. Too many cooks in the kitchen, and the core message was lost.
Militarizing Postal Service
Hey, the perpetually sucking USPS may finally have a reason to exist:
The federal government said today that in the event of an anthrax attack it would use postal carriers to deliver emergency antibiotics to households across the country.
The project, announced today by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, will begin with a $500,000 pilot training program in Minneapolis-St. Paul. If all goes well, the program would be expanded to other cities starting next year.
“This quick-strike capability is intended to buy time for local and State public health authorities to set up points of dispensing for further provision of antibiotics across the community,” the Health and Human Services Department said in a statement.
Test runs in Seattle, Philadelphia and Boston over the past two years worked well, health officials said. Letter carriers, escorted by police officers, delivered empty pill bottles along with a flier explaining what was happening. In Philadelphia, 50 carriers reached roughly 53,000 households in eight hours, The Associated Press reports.
First Policy Briefing
Finally fixed. Here it is. Feedback is appreciated.
(It is currently percolating through various parts of government.)
Meanwhile: Still Going To Bomb Iran
Baer lays out the case quite succinctly.
