What Has To Be Present to Fix Corruption?

What Has To Be Present to Fix Corruption?

If you’ve read my book, The Happiest Corruption, Sleaze, Lies, & Suicide in a California Beach Town, or signed up for my online course, Double Dias: Adventures in Local Government, you’ll have picked up a message that runs through them, and through many of the...
What Fuels the Machine? Fear Fuels it and Greed Runs it.

What Fuels the Machine? Fear Fuels it and Greed Runs it.

I tell the story of three political machines in my THE HAPPIEST CORRUPTION: Sleaze, Lies, & Suicide in a California Beach Town. They are focused in different American communities, even in different centuries, but the stories echo through decades and across the...
The 5 Biggest Mistakes Concerned Citizens Make

The 5 Biggest Mistakes Concerned Citizens Make

Today I’m going to share with you the five most common mistakes people make when trying to establish good governance in their communities. Mistake 1 they don’t speak in public meetings – if your elected representatives don’t know what matters to you, and if you...