Americans Coordination Institute
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On the Sunday morning news talk shows there was much made over the “system being broken”, the “Senate being broken” and the tragedy of the past two weeks in the drama surrounding Mr. Justice Kavanaugh. Nothing is broken. Senator Lindsay Graham from my home state of South Carolina is right: …
As we watch the seams of the Presidency split away for the second time in my lifetime, the parallels to the Watergate scandal are astounding. Why astounding? Because I would have thought, and did think, that the lessons from Watergate were clear enough to guide any member of a presidential …
The elected Treasurer of Spokane County, Washington, has taken a courageous step on behalf of his constituents. As a single elected official, he has invoked the coordination process created in federal law to challenge the acquisition of a Washington based power company by a Canadian homed and owned power company. …
In this month of April, fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated; one of the magnificent voices of America was stilled. Just four months later Robert Francis Kennedy was assassinated; another of the great voices of America stilled. When I graduated from the College of Idaho in 1958 …
The Interim CEO, James Quintana opened the Corporation’s first bank account this week in the D.L. Evans Bank in Nampa, Idaho. The corporation’s vision coordinator Parrish Miller will have the donation area of the website completed this week so that contributors and members can begin donating, with the contributions going …
The first big project for the Institute will be assisting a New Mexico local government unit engaging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) through the coordination process. The objective is to coordinate with the FDA so that their policy with regard to allowing performance of experimental cancer treatments will be …
As I dive deeper into my first doctoral class, I hear Eliza Doolittle in the musical “My Fair Lady” singing the above. All these made up words that don’t speak plainly – “processual” (Lave, p.158), “historicism” (Lave p. 159) and “positionality.” It almost seems as though the writers are working …
Two years ago, today I wrote a tribute to my good friend and mentor in coordination Bert Smith who passed away on March 31 of that year, 2016. Bert was 96 years young and was still “mentally in it”. I think of him almost daily at one point or another …
During meetings in Las Vegas, Nevada the weekend of March 24-25, 2018, Herman Cain assured Fred Kelly Grant and James Quintana that he supports and will support both the coordination process for local governments and the Institute and its work. Presentations on the coordination process will be made on Mr. …
On March 22, 2018, Americans Institute of Coordination LTD was officially launched by the filing of Articles of Incorporation as a 501(c)(3) corporation with the Idaho Secretary of State. Incorporators Fred Kelly Grant, James Quintana and Gerald Strober stated the purpose of the corporation to be to provide “educational programs …