New Orleans Something just does not smell right about the protestations from Save the Children that they are dropping out of the point position in the fight to impose higher taxes on soda drinks as part of the campaign against childhood obesity. The R.J. Johnson Foundation had given them $3 million for their advocacy [...]
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New Orleans In a piece about the feinting being done by billionaire NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Matt Bai in the New York Times correctly pointed out that not only money but “ballot access” was a huge impediment to alternative political parties and candidacies. A throwaway comment though got me thinking when he mentioned [...] New Orleans I’ve got to admit that the more there is a bully boy, gang up on Wikileaks by governments, businesses and cowards, the more I’m sympathetic to their situation and the need for all of us to step up some way or another. My hero of the day is Toronto-based EasyDNS, a domain registration [...] New Orleans There is no question that Detroit has been an economically troubled city for some time now. Apocryphal, urban legends have grown around this great city of quail and bird counts returning to some areas because they have essentially gone “back to wilderness” due to abandonment and lack of population. Now news of [...] Miami Here and there I had run into Gibran Perera, the director of the Miami Workers’ Center, and had heard of the operation over the years. He spoke at the Tides’ Foundation Momentum conference several years ago on the “right to the city” which held interest. Looking for a way to give ACORN Canada [...] Judy Duncan, head organizer of ACORN Canada with Dewey Armstrong Miami Being in Miami with the ACORN Canada staff as they plan for the next year and how to expand “coast-to-coast” on federal issue, it seemed like a good time to reach out to Dewey Armstrong, the first ACORN political director and one of [...] Miami There are some pieces of this story that none of us really want to believe are happening, there are other parts that are way across the line are need huge pushback, as I have argued. Talking to Canadian associates last night about the case, there was consensus that this was a “family-oriented” blog, [...] Phoenix A block away there was one sign still standing that said Holiday Gardens – “covenant restricted” — while the other was nothing but brick since the sign was long gone. A couple of blocks away an old neighborhood watch sign said this was Heatherbrae or some such neighborhood. Side by side both areas [...] |
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