Denver: Tonight I was supposed to be home. I would have arrived around 11 PM, picked up my truck at the airport, and gone home. I would have seen to the old German shepherd in the yard, put the dirty clothes from a week on the road into the wash, thrown some clean ones in …
Month: August 2005
ITIN Loans
Denver: In California and some other areas where increasing immigration continues to be a “wedge” issue that can get the dust up in the summer’s heat, over the last several weeks articles in both San Diego and Los Angeles tried to focus on ACORN and Citigroup’s breakthrough program to provide home loans for families with ITIN …
Tactical Mothers
New Orleans: In the “framing” issues and campaigns one thing we have all learned from George Lakoff and others is that a critical element is the “messenger.” Having Cindy Sheehan deliver the message that the war should be over for the sake of her son’s sacrifice is very powerful. An organizer reminded me that mothers have …