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Silver Lining on Home Equity Loans

New Orleans In some ways we all eventually come to grips with the fact that we are a “product of our raising,” as the expression down here goes and in the case of personal real estate and personal debts, I was my father’s son:  conservative!  When he retired after 38 years with an oil company, [...]

Wrong Reasons, Right Move

Helena Coming back on the grid for a day, you go through your email, answer the urgent calls, see what’s tweeting, hit the Facebook, and scan through the headlines in the New York Times and other papers to see what’s up.  The last is the least rewarding task sometimes.

An irresistible headline jumps up on [...]

Home Care Labor Crisis in USA & Korea

New Orleans Meeting with three visitors and friends from Korea, Yungik Jeong, Young Mi Choi, and Hwang Inhul, who work with PSAU, an organization of the unemployed and irregular workers, as informal and unprotected workers are now known there, the conversation quickly came to plight of home health care workers or domestic workers as they [...]

Weird Times on Tax Exemptions for Israeli Settlements

New Orleans        I was in Mexico City reading the Times on-line and, frankly, didn’t trust what I was reading completely until I could have the paper in my hot hands, but it’s still a strange and weird article printed on 7/6/10 entitled:  “U.S. Gives Tax Breaks for Donations to Aid Settlements in the West [...]

Jornaleros: Livelihoods and Public Safety

New Orleans My heart sank as I read the New York Times editorial in the wake of the 9th Circuit Appeals court upholding an ordinance crafted by the City of Redondo Beach (California) pushing day laborers off the streets in the name of traffic safety.  The editorial said all of the right things, but [...]

Health Care Wars Ongoing

New Orleans Perhaps the number three rule of politics, right after “everything begins with a base” and “money rules,” is that the “devil is in the details.” Now that Congress has voted and the President has signed, we need to get off of the arguments about how few slices of the [...]

Enough with The Talk on Immigration Reform

New Orleans Frankly, I don’t read editorials in the New York Times. Usually they just made me mad.  Saturday though there was one that was mad enough already under the headline:  “Republicans Wanted.”  The editorial was about the meetings last Thursday between President Obama and advocates for immigration reform.

Telling it like it is, the [...]

Killing the Tea Party with Guns

New Orleans The New York Times pumped a couple of rounds into the Tea Party in a front page story today.  They missed the heart, but they were probably aiming more to cripple, than kill.  Despite the palpable anger so clearly motivating a vast national, though embryonic, movement, David Barstow, the reporter on the [...]

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