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by Brian Phillips In her essay “What Can One Do?” Ayn Rand writes: Speak on any scale open to you, large or small–to your friends, your associates, your professional organizations, or any legitimate public forum. You can never tell when your words will reach the right mind at the right time. HOS member Joe Reed [...] by Brian Phillips Thirteen members of HOS attended the April 15 Tea Party. We handed out 150 copies of Atlas Shrugged, 150 pamphlets, and collected about 150 email addresses. I have sent an email to those who got a copy of Atlas. I encouraged them to read it, to visit the HOS web site, as [...] by Janet Westphal Report by the HOS president on the healthcare meeting held by Houston Representative Sheila Jackson Lee and Michigan Representative John Conyers, Jr. Besides myself, three other members showed up to the healthcare meeting on Friday, July 18th (which actually was a Congressional Hearing). I had planned my son’s feedings around the meeting, [...] by Brian Phillips On April 14 I appeared on a panel to discuss the proposed Ashby High Rise. The event was hosted by the Baker Institute Student Forum at Rice. The other members of the panel were: Jim Reeder, the President of the Southampton Civic Club (the neighborhood nearest the proposed project) Mike Snyder, a [...] by Brian Phillips In mid-2005 the Maddox Foundation of Hobbs, New Mexico, proposed to give the city a $15 million grant to “beautify” the city. The grant contract included a stipulation that the city adopt land use controls that met with the approval of the Foundation. Several months later, I was contacted by a businessman [...] |
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