New Orleans We had a good, but troubling, meeting with organizers from Houston, Little Rock, Shreveport, New Orleans and elsewhere about how to proceed to lower the digital divide and access lower cost internet services, promised, but not delivered, by Comcast and other companies. By mid-February we will move forward to either involve the FCC more [...]
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New Orleans The Times ran a story that tried to put a face on the 1% and encourage us to embrace our inner percentage. There are two ways to approach looking at these numbers around the country, and both perspectives can offer some insight to US political views. On the one hand it lends some vague sense of [...] New Orleans We love having the Super Bowl in New Orleans. Another one is coming in a year – 2013! I read with interest a story in the Times about Indianapolis this year with an alluring headline, “Unexpected Benefits from a Super Bowl Bid.” On first reading I lapped up the article’s spin on the [...] New Orleans Yikes – every once in a while, we find out we are out there on our own in a wild world where the protection provided for fools and little children is sadly lacking. This summer after 18 months of negotiation, we acquired through donation and loans a fantastic mobile biodiesel rig on an 8 [...] New Orleans I had offered the Occupy NOLA folks a place to meet at various times during their occupation of the desolate park space in front of New Orleans City Hall, but it was only by showing up on the night that they were being evicted from the Avery Alexander / Duncan Plaza and inviting [...] |
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