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Thank You Notes for Dropping Beck

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 [...]

Home Rule or Rule Home

New Orleans The uptown “go-go’s” in New Orleans have caught themselves again trying to pull a fast one.  After diluting a proposition around creating a city master plan sufficiently to get an approval vote last election, this clique is now unhappy when State Senator Murray (a wannabe mayoral candidate) [...]

Wal-Mart’s First Indian Store

New Orleans The first rollout of a store in India from the fruit of the Bharti-Wal-Mart partnership is eminent.  The Journal was trumpeting the in Amritsar in the Punjab scheduled for next Tuesday.  Word in India from Dharmendra Kumar, director of India FDI Watch Campaign is that they will have [...]

Citizen Wealth: Increasing Access for Participation

New Orleans Once one gets past the ideological opposition some have towards eligible citizens gaining full access to all of the income supports available, we are still faced with the cost of infrastructure and the capacity to enroll the vast numbers who are unserved.

In my book, [...]

Continuing Development Wars

  Austin        Austin still has the feel of a city on the bright side of the recession.  Unemployment has hardly hit 6%.   The airport is new and busy.  Developers are still trying to build and finish projects, and community fights against them are real and important.      I caught up with the fight to [...]

Finding New Ways to Organize

 Toronto    Some of the most interesting meetings in my several days in Toronto were with our friends in the Canadian labor movement in Ontario, especially at the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), SEIU Canada, and the Steelworkers.  There’s a hunger to organize in most of these unions even though several of them are getting hammered by [...]