Challenges and Opportunities

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BookCourt events

Today's New York Times front page (above the fold):
NYT: BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Well Before Blast
NYT: California Puts Vote Overhaul on the Ballot
NYT: Trampled in a Land Rush, Chinese Resist
NYT: In E. Coli Fight, Some Strains Are Largely Ignored

Fears

Rewind: May 21, 2010: Confidence
Rewind: May 5, 2010: Debt

Craft Beer

Fox NY: American Craft Beer Week runs from May 17-23... The industry's light-hearted "declaration of independence" extols craft brewing as "living liquid history" and a "libation of substance and soul."... More than 1,500 breweries are responsible for the beer brands made in the United States with more than 90 percent of these fitting the small and independent craft brewer definition. While independent brewers represent about 6 percent of beer sales, they provide about 100,000 jobs within the industry.

http://www.americancraftbeerweek.org/apps/events/events.html

Confidence

Rewind: May 5, 2010: Debt

Bergen, Between Smith and Boerum

TheInvisibleDog.org

Fast-forward: May 24, 2010: Brooklyn Maize Field (corner of Bergen and Smith): Installing the Stones on Bergen Street; Related: http://www.brooklynmaize.org/boreum.html

Between Sackett and Degraw

Debt

-> ft.com/greece
-> guardian.co.uk/business/2010/may/05/uk-budget-deficit-worse-than-greece
-> economist.com/world/europe

Fast-forward: May 21, 2010: Confidence

Fast-forward: June 2011: The Brink 2

Food

BP: Inspired by the upcoming “Bklyn Made” event at Borough Hall on May 14, which will spotlight more than a dozen of the borough’s food and beverage brands, we decided to check in with some of our oldest, thriving businesses and those with only a few years under their belts...

BCC: Brooklyn Goes Global is kicking off World Trade Week 2010 at our inaugural BKLYN MADE event showcasing some of the borough's finest food and beverage manufacturers. The public is welcome to join our invited guests, including distributors, wholesalers and buyers, as they meet the artisans and entrepreneurs of Brooklyn's food manufacturing industry while sampling their locally made specialties. Get the inside scoop on how these Brooklyn companies got their start and how these fine foods are produced...