Natchitoches, Louisiana These are strange times. First, Arkansas with a Republican governor with presidential aspirations jumped into the minimal health insurance sweepstakes. Now, Massachusetts, a richer, more liberal state, but once again with a Republican governor with presidential aspirations takes a cut at mandatory health insurance. What’s happening and how can we get on top …
Month: April 2006
Press Storm
Dallas Monday before dawn buses pulled out of Houston and other Texas cities filled with ACORN members who were damned if they were not going to be the first voters to take advantage of satellite polling places in Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport. And, they were! A Houston Chronicle reporter rode with a couple …
Civil Rights Moment?
Ithaca, New York New England was still a raw way from spring. Daffodils were trying but the frost on cars and the iced over puddles told a different story when I was in Massachusetts and then again driving through the rain to Ithaca. On Wednesday night I spoke to a graduate class at the University …