The National Parks Compromised : Pork Barrel Politics and America's Treasures

The National Parks Compromised : Pork Barrel Politics and America's Treasures Review

The National Parks Compromised is James Ridinour's personal account of his four years at the helm of the National park Service and is consistent with his management style during those tough times. It's packed with candor, deliberation, common sense, and a good dose of humor. As director he sood clearly on the side of resource protection and fought against the congresssional creation of new park sites with little or no significance. He coined the term, "the thinning of the blood of our national parks" which referred to the congressional habit of creating pork barrel projects in the national parks budget while failing to take care of the minimal needs of our already established great American treasures. He predicts a slide to mediocrity for the Yellowstones and Yosemites of the system unless this habit is curtailed. In his book, Ridinour places the blame for the deterioration of the National Park System squarely where it belongs: in the U.S. Congress. None of his predecessors or, indeed, his bosses, took on the pork barrel politicians. He did, and every professional park ranger and clear-thinking citizen is better off because of his persistence.

Whole Beast Butchery: The Complete Visual Guide to Beef, Lamb, and Pork

Whole Beast Butchery: The Complete Visual Guide to Beef, Lamb, and Pork Review

DIY fever + quality meat mania = old-school butchery revival! Artisan cooks who are familiar with their farmers market are now buying small farm raised meat in butcher-sized portions. Dubbed a rock star butcher by the New York Times, San Francisco chef and self-taught meat expert Ryan Farr demystifies the butchery process with 500 step-by-step photographs, master recipes for key cuts, and a primer on tools, techniques, and meat handling. This visual manual is the first to teach by showing exactly what butchers know, whether cooks want to learn how to turn a primal into familiar and special cuts or to simply identify everything in the case at the market.

Home Pork Making

Home Pork Making Review

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Slow Cooking Greats: 222 Delicious Slow Cooking Recipes: from Apple Pork Roast in Crockpot to Slow-Poke Jambalaya Crockpot - 222 Top Slow Cooker and Crock Pot Recipes

Slow Cooking Greats: 222 Delicious Slow Cooking Recipes: from Apple Pork Roast in Crockpot to Slow-Poke Jambalaya Crockpot - 222 Top Slow Cooker and Crock Pot Recipes Review

222 quick & easy slow cooking & Crockpot recipes including a delicious array of styles, ingredients & influences: savoury & sweet, traditional & off-beat, Oriental, Mediterranean, European, meats & vegetarian, soups, pizza, pasta, pot roast & more.

Public Television: Panacea, Pork Barrel, or Public Trust? (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications)

Public Television: Panacea, Pork Barrel, or Public Trust? (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications) Review

This history of public television over the last twenty years shows how powerful political actors and the budget process in the United States have severely restricted the strategic behavior and programming of public TV. This hard-hitting story fills a real void in the literature on the subject and should be required reading for station managers, broadcasters, students and professionals in communications, and public policymakers. The ancillary text with its analysis of organizations theory and models is intended also for undergraduate and graduate students in mass media and communications, public policy, and organizational behavior. This practical analysis of public television funding, organization, and programming opens with an overview of organizations theory and a discussion of two models of organizational behavior. A brief history of public TV policy follows with a description of critical developments under the last four American presidents. The legislative history of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting demonstrates the effects of the budgetary process in TV programming, employment diversity, and services to different audiences. The case study closes with an evaluation of public television in terms of organizational strengths and weaknesses and offers practical suggestions for reform.

Stiletto Heels And A Pork Pie Hat: Poetry Collection

Stiletto Heels And A Pork Pie Hat: Poetry Collection Review

Downtown. Big City. Three in the morning. Dreamers, shysters, hipsters, nightowls, birds and hawks down and out or on the make - these, and many more, portraits people the pages of Stiletto Heels & A Pork Pie Hat, the city as it is when the others sleep. Nighthawk at Dawn, Wise Man At The Diner, but also First Kiss are a few of the poems and portraits peopling this collection of poems, a celebration of life, its loves, passions, worries and concerns, a stage of unforgettable characters who are complex: the man next door, the woman across the table, the wife of twenty years, tired husbands, fretful mothers, ambitious daughters all struggling with jobs, friends, relationships; in the struggle, a celebration of life: as bright and vibrant as the neon lights lighting your face in the mirror across the counter, but also that mask of of ennui, the wicked smile of sane cynicism, or that capful of good humor that at the break of dawn props one up for yet another round of life as it should be lived.

Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy

Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy Review

Stein and Bickers explore the policy subsystems--links among members of Congress, interest groups, government agencies--that blanket the American political landscape. They employ a new data base detailing federal outlays to Congressional districts for each federal program to examine four myths about the impact of policy subsystems on American government: that policy subsystems are a major contributor to the federal deficit, that federal programs grow and rarely die, that subsystem actors seek to universalize the scope of program benefits, and that the flow of program benefits to constituencies ensures legislators' reelection.