Wampum

An addendum to the post below...

Now this is really probably pie in the sky stuff. When Maine was hit by our worst natural disaster, the Ice Storm of '98, an interesting phenomenon developed. All of the radio towers with the exception of one were knocked down. That single station became a clearinghouse for people who needed things, or had things to offer (as well as providing news, asking for people to check on someone's grandmother, etc.) I see the potential for a network developing which would link up disaster victims with charitable folks. So, say you've lost everything, and you need a specific item, say, you have an autistic child and you need a small trampoline. Well, there just happens to be someone in Iowa who has such a thing to donate. A third party charitable agency pays the postage, and Nice Lady in Iowa sends off the trampoline to PoA in Mississippi.

Is this kind of clearinghouse feasible? I don't know, and frankly don't have the ability these days to research it, but I think it's a possibility whose potential some good Progressive keyboarders should investigate.

As they say, "as goes Maine, so goes the nation"...