New Orleans In New Orleans, Lucha, my Australian Shepherd, and I walk to the Mississippi River and back every morning in the predawn. She knows the drill and has her favorites stops along the route where she likes to sniff and piddle, but both of us, now about the same age in dog …
Trump’s Money Problems
New Orleans Yeah, yeah, Trump is on trial. We all know that. He’s logging another historical marker as the first president to ever face a criminal trial. It’s a hometown crowd for him, but a place where he won’t find as many friendly faces in the jury from a pool of his neighbors …
Walmart is a Machine with People in the Gears
New Orleans The headline was an attention grabber blaring out that Walmart store managers might make $240,000 a year. With a worldwide reputation for scrawny paychecks, was this possible? Having run an organizing program for a coalition of unions at Walmart stores almost twenty years ago in central Florida, I couldn’t resist reading …