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LONG GONE: Ninth Street in its heyday. Little Rock These days planners and speculators would be hard pressed to imagine that they could figure out a way to easily intersect cities with ribbons of concrete dividing rich, poor, black and white, which is not to say there aren’t some still trying, but the public purposes [...] New Orleans Part of the problem in understanding the real, core issues with the Affordable Care Act and the way in which employers, especially those specializing in lower waged workforces, are jacking with the system is separating the ideological polemics from the facts in order to see whose ox is really being gored. For example, take [...] New Orleans It’s only a matter of time before someone sues James O’Keefe, the video scammer, for false advertising to prevent him from calling his operation Project Veritas, since veritas means truth in Latin, and he has no clue what that is. O’Keefe’s latest tempest in a teapot had been his accusations against the Battleground Texas voter [...]  Remembering Elena Hanggi, Jack Lavey, and the Wilbur Mills Expressway Fight Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadACORN President Elena Hanggi leads marchers. Republican National Convention Dallas in 1984. New Orleans The obituary for Elena Hanggi Giddings said so little that it was almost hard for me to believe that this was the same woman I knew so well and so long. Her stint as chair of the regional advisory board of [...] Banks Shirking Responsibility for Foreclosed Property Maintenance Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadNew Orleans I woke up to headlines indicating that the National Fair Housing Alliance has accused Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank of effectively “red lining” blight into largely African-American and Latino neighborhoods in 35 different cities in 15 metropolitan areas. Recently the alliance added New Orleans, Dallas, New Haven, and Hampton Roads, Virginia to an amended complaint [...] Glasgow September 18th may not already be circled on your calendar but it’s a huge date in Scotland when the vote will be taken on the referendum of whether or not Scotland will be independent of the United Kingdom. The papers are full of charges and counter-charges about the impact of the vote and speculation [...] |
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