New Orleans Comcast deigned to meet with representatives of Local 100 United Labor Unions in their offices in Houston on Monday. Once again they tried to slather the butter on the bread with stories of their “good intentions” about internet access for the poor. Once again they promised that they would get back to us. [...]
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New Orleans Even though many economists are forcefully arguing that we cannot get out of this recession unless we finally realistically and aggressively address the home mortgage and foreclosure crises, President Obama through executive fiat continued down the same path that has been such an abysmal failure thus far. The program the President announced would [...] New Orleans Secretary Shaun Donovan and President Obama made yet another HUD announcement of another faux “program” to help foreclosure victims, which once again will not work and plays yet more patty cake with banks and their loan servicers. These charades have become something like a marker of seasons passing as we record yet [...] Laramie I may be stuck in Laramie, but I adapt and make the best of it, which is what organizers do by nature and training. I spent a couple of hours at Coal Creek Coffee downtown in no small part because generally coffee in Wyoming sucks, despite the greatness of the state, and because [...] Baltimore You can’t find this piece in the Journal, Times, or Post. Soon it will show up in more conservative blogs with appropriate conspiratorial references and asides. Count on the misquotes and false attributions being numerous, but reading the decision by U.S. Federal Judge Nina Gershon, one cannot miss the decision’s clarity or thinly [...] New Orleans The Louisiana Recovery Authority has not been able to track compliance on Road Home recovery grants to homeowners to rebuild, but fortunately a non-profit, Beacon of Hope, did so though at least in the affluent area of Lakeview, but it’s not good news. Seems of 1800 homes they surveyed nothing has been done [...] Dauphine Island Westchester County, the affluent suburb outside of New York City, finally had to concede the obvious and admit that they had had not only allowed, but done nothing to prevent the creation of lily white communities throughout the County, and this amounts to racial segregation. They agreed to settle a lawsuit filed [...] |
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