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New Orleans A harrowing article in the Wall Street Journal documented the success that bottom fishing debt collection agencies are having at ripping the last pennies from working families being crushed in court over relatively small claims. I wish this were news, but of course the story is all too familiar. The big debt predator companies [...] New Orleans Discussion of an independent party or a party caucus focusing on Latinos and modeled on the success of the Tea Party has now lept into public view. A story on debates within the community about a possible “Tequila Party” was reported in a piece by Delen Goldberg in the Las Vegas Sun over [...] Newsweek Kindle New Orleans I’m not much of a consumer. My truck is over a dozen years old. My house is many times older and the mortgage is paid. I only replace my running shoes every couple of years and my boots every three years. But I’ve always bought books for work, for pleasure, [...] New Orleans I was fascinated by an article in today’s Times about something called Charity Navigator, which would like to influence the way donors give by herding them into a “financial” or “strictly business” evaluation process. The piece was about their attempt to retool “…to add evaluations of a nonprofit’s accountability and transparency to [...] New Orleans In Phoenix this week 35 members of Advocates and Actions did an action on the new “field office” of Fannie Mae to a lame response despite camera crews from five stations whirring away. It was more heartening to read that the Justice Department was using the angle of its authority over bankruptcy law to [...] New Orleans The DREAM Act is bumping and stumbling its way to a vote in the Senate to the quack of the lame ducks and the politics of desperation, but once again young people are showing muscle and grit to lead this movement. For the last two weeks more than a dozen students at [...] New Orleans During the World Series we finally learned something interesting about Barbara Bush that wasn’t horrific. It turns out she knows how to keep the box score on a game. While the Georges were rubbernecking and Laura was talking over her shoulder, the Iron Fist of Texas was dutifully minding the box score. [...] New Orleans Remittances are a huge part of the Gross National Product (GNP) of many countries around the developing world. In fact some countries like Mexico, the Philippines, and others seem to be surviving largely because they are exporting workers who are sending back money to support families. Remittances are the life blood and often [...] |
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