Kansas City: H&R Block is the largest tax preparer in the country, grinding out close to 20 million returns a year. They make the market in more ways that one can imagine when it comes to moving taxes and refunds. Their path crosses with ACORN in ways that might surprise until one thinks about it. First, …
Month: April 2004
Flights from Hell
Washington-Chicago-New Orleans: Modern travel stands math and geography on its head – unless price is no limit, and perhaps even if price is no problem, simply because you can no longer “get there from here.” If you live and work on the road, which I have done for thirty years, you always have stories of travel …
Falling
New Orleans My office is 10 blocks from the River. I live 3 blocks from the River. I like being near the River. Years ago I took a vacation once just to drive to the headwaters of the River to see Lake Itasca myself and be able to walk across a small rivulet there and know …