Silver Spring Campbell Robertson from the Times did a piece on the Katrina impact on New Orleans at the 4th anniversary and given the fact – to their credit – that the Times has stayed on the New Orleans / Katrina story all of these years, it bears attention, if for nothing else to [...]
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New Orleans One of the Obama pop-ups yesterday that was NOT in the news, probably for obvious and deliberate reasons, was President Obama’s drop by at a meeting between Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and an array of people who are strongly committed to comprehensive immigration reform from business, religion, labor, [...] New Orleans There were technical problems and it was a weird experience, but I have to say, of the millions of conference calls I do in a year, it’s still special to have the President of the United States pop on to one. What a powerful political tool with such huge potential – I want [...] New Orleans My mother is from Sunflower County, Mississippi. They raise a lot of cotton and soybeans around there and once upon a time a ton of mischief, but one other thing they seem to specialize in is manners. We were force fed manners from birth and even as you get sloppy about it, the [...] New Orleans Reading the New Orleans Times-Picayune this morning was troubling. I had thought about this problem before, but was confronted with too many telling and disturbing statistics to continue to ignore it today. Like everyone, I want to believe that Teach for America and similar programs are good, not just for the young folks [...] New Orleans There are some people who spend their lives convincing folks that up is actually down. Mortgage brokers are the escape artists of the subprime lending business and after Wall Street should be at the top of the list of responsible and predatory parties in the entire meltdown. Amazingly and seemingly without a blush, [...] Dauphine Island Despite the federal investments in banking now, many of the biggest seem to be accelerating predatory practices particularly around fees. During normal times working families stretching every penny to pay bills will occasionally bounce a check. Who hasn’t? Banks seem to in fact count on us bouncing some checks in order to balance their [...] |
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