Reading about the Walton Family Foundation, in Bill Hudson’s editorial, yesterday, got me thinking about tendrils… those threadlike, leafless organs of climbing plants that creep upon, spiral around, and attach themselves to all kinds of things.
I did not realize the Walton Family Foundation has provided funding for Politico, a political journalism news site I’ve been following, quite closely.
I’ll be wondering, now, whether the Foundation is influencing some of the news coverage and commentary I’ve been reading.
I’ll be wondering, as well, about the Walton Family Foundation’s influence on “government policy around the Colorado River.”
Foundations established by wealthy individuals, families and business firms, can do a lot of good, no doubt about it… through their funding and overall support of worthy causes and a host of needs.
But tendrils, of sorts, sometimes, might be invading some foundations… getting all intertwined with good intentions. Like when a foundation’s funding might be shaping policies.
Maybe policies involving a major river, or water resources and allocations, or, perhaps, water marketing?
Bill Hudson’s March 23 editorial, on an entirely different issue, got me chuckling…
Especially when Mayor Volger exclaimed — “Oh crap!” — with regard to faulty pumps having a hard time squeezing that word, in the Mayor’s exclamation, uphill, through seven miles of a sewer pipeline.
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.