Los Angeles Something important –and good — is happening for low wage workers, and, yes, Virginia, there are low wage workers even in New York State, particularly the home child care workers laboring under state contracts to provide day care for tens of thousands of working parents. There are a lot of them — 52,000 …
Month: June 2006
Waveland
New Orleans After my father retired twenty years ago, he bought something we called the “beach house” in Waveland, Mississippi about an hour’s drive from New Orleans. He owned it for a dozen years or so, and finally took his own counsel, decided that the family did not use the place enough to justify his …
Chairman Warren
New Orleans It’s hard not to read the business pages of the daily papers and not know who Warren E. Buffet is. They fawn on his investment strategy. Sometimes they call him the “Oracle of Omaha,” which I guess passes for a complement and high praise. Put wild, crazy money in someone’s hands, especially if …