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Houston Light Rail Houston For a change it wasn’t work. We were in Houston during the weekend to celebrate the wedding of Emma Graves Fitzsimmons and Gerry Smith. First time ever any of us had attended a wedding reported in the New York Times. It goes without saying that Emma’s job on the national desk of [...] New Orleans There was a picture in the New York Times claiming to be Dan Cantor (sure didn’t look like him?) of the New York State Working Families Party who was advocating an increase in the state minimum wage. Jen Kern, a career minimum wage expert as former coordinator of ACORN’s Minimum Wage Resource Center [...] New Orleans Joe Nocera starts his column in today’s New York Times with a story of running into Jamie Daemon, Chase CEO, who rhetorically asks the elevator crowd, “Why does the New York Times hate banks?” Yeah, I wish, but back to Nocera, he responds that that everyone hates banks and gives credit card collection [...] New Orleans As improbable as it may sound; sweatshops seem to have a lot of high placed advocates who simply swear by them. Yes, sweatshops! In the recent deification of Apple and its co-founder Steven Jobs, there has been unstinting praise for Apple and its high priced, sleek products as a great American success story. The [...] New Orleans Suze Orman has made her reputation as a TV financial advisor. Now she wants to promote a debit card for low-and-moderate income families who have weak credit and want the ability to operate differently. Her Approved card needs to be renamed as the Improved card, but it’s still not a good card, or [...] |
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