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Arizona is the 21st Century Mississippi

New Orleans I really love Arizona.  It’s beautiful country with an amazing history and people.  So was, Mississippi fifty odd years ago, but sometimes the fusion of time, land, and change produces hybrid aberrations that shake society to the core.   We need to stop pretending that there’s not something serious wrong in the political [...]

Making Banks Pay to Maintain Foreclosed Properties

John Tanner of SEIU Local 721

New Orleans One disclosure after another leads the news disclosing the bad behavior of banks, servicers, and others in the foreclosure racket, but often to the victim it seems like little more than water hitting the rocks whose impact none of us will survive to see.  In recent weeks [...]

Widespread Fraud at Bank of America

Orange Beach, Alabama Better late than never, the Attorney Generals of Nevada and Arizona sued Bank of America for “widespread fraud” on the bait and switch of promising that a loan modification is in progress and then foreclosing and selling the house out from under the homeowner at the same time.  The Times and [...]

Brewer, Bankers, and Union Busters – Election Day!

Grizzly Mom voted!

New Orleans Yesterday was the first day of our future and from all reports it was much, much scarier than Halloween might have ever hoped to be.  Look at the cases in point.

In the federal hearing on immigration madness in Arizona, Governor Brewer took time out of her campaign schedule (ok, that’s [...]

Calling Costa Rica for Bank of America Loans

Phoenix Sitting in the Phoenix office of Advocates and Actions (www.advocatesandactions.org), I had trouble believing Isabelle and Teresa when they told me that when they talked to servicers for Bank of America loans they were talking to B of A representatives in Costa Rica.  This was the same Bank of America that received $45 [...]

Indicting Sheriff Arpaio

Shreveport Meeting Friday night with immigration reform organizers after their long day of meetings in New Orleans on the 2nd day of the “Turning the Tide” conference it was clear that spirits were good among the organizers, despite the fact that prospects for comprehensive reform seem to have sunk to new lows.  These were [...]