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New Orleans I find no joy in reading about forced-placed insurance, but I take great satisfaction in seeing the farce and fraud of such anti-consumer insurance coming to light. Quoting Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of Financial Services from Gretchen Morgenson’s “Fair Game” column in the Times, Force-placed insurance appears to be the dirty little secret of the mortgage [...] New Orleans I will talk about this a lot more, and I’ve been talking about this a lot before, but the article in Sunday’s Times-Picayune is a flashing neon sign that I’m going “all in” on a number of bets that recognize that we have to change the paradigm of resources to organizing domestically [...] Saket Soni and the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice have beaten the drum in the more than four years since Hurricane Katrina about the abuses to south Asian guest workers pulled into the shipyards during the desperate labor supplies after the storm. Lawsuits against Signal International now coming to light reveal clearly the [...] New Orleans Moving into August, the “Katrina” month, in New Orleans forces a renewed reckoning with the status of the city’s comeback. Wildly spinning stories this week expressed surprise with the robustness of the “recovery.” The city’s population has now reached 76%+ of the pre-storm number putting us over 350,000 and rising. Observers were shocked, since [...] Slidell My son and I are hardly scientists, but we know something about the marsh and bayous between Lake Pontchartrain and the West Pearl River. Until Katrina we had a fishing camp on two acres a mile or so as a crow would fly from the Lake. Now we have two [...] |
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