Obama sacks CDC Director

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday January 10, 2009 · 11:10 AM PST

2009/01/10 · 11:10

A great fear among many in the public health community was that Obama would not immediately replace Dr. Julie Gerberding as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (aka, the CDC). It is a relief to say that she will be out in 9 days, although she isn't going willingly and will wring every last second of power and salary out of it: literally. Her requested resignation is effective at noon on January 20 just as Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States:

revere

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday August 01, 2008 · 6:58 AM PDT

2008/08/01 · 06:58

There's a mighty storm a brewin' in the occupational health world. It is always a marvel to us that no matter how jaded we think we are, there is always room for more indignation. It is the Bush administration's only form of renewable energy.

The issue first poked its head above water on July 8 when my colleague Celeste Monforton over at The Pump Handle noticed something suspicious on the website of the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA, pronounced oh-EYE-ra):

revere

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday June 05, 2008 · 7:38 AM PDT

2008/06/05 · 07:38

Does the Obama candidacy signal a return of "the sixties"? It's possible. What does that mean? Even those us who were there remember the sixties imperfectly. Not because we were permanently stoned. Memory is selective. We remember it as better than it was. We were young, and that makes a difference.Yet, as tristero observes over at Digby's place, the sixties were not just a time of flowering creativity and the securing of new freedoms, but also a terrible, difficult and dark time for anyone who had any political awareness.

RSS

Obama sacks CDC Director

The Axis of Evil, renewable resources and occupational health

Obama, JFK and the sixties