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 [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] San Jose Nicholas Kristof did a column in the Times in his usual didactic, rah-rah fashion trumpeting the happiness of Costa Rican people (http://bit.ly/6i0csw). He cites a couple of different “surveys” where Costa Ricans self-evaluate and cobbles this together with the point that in 1949 the government shutdown its army and investigated more in [...] San Francisco Erik Eckholm of the Times is one of the last reporters on the “poverty beat” in the country, and by god I almost feel a personal obligation to read his pieces and try to get the word out before the paltry news of the poor disappears from papers altogether. He was on the [...] |
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