New Orleans A bus load of ACORN members came in from Houston hoping to find out not only about training, but also about jobs. Another 50 folks came from New Orleans and Baton Rouge ACORN for the same reasons with 35 of them wanting to register for jobs or training. Local 100 SEIU had members …
Month: July 2006
Wal-Mart Buying the Opposition
New Orleans Wal-Mart continues to prove over and over again that it is the same ruthless, aggressive, take-no-prisoners company it has always been, it just puts a little more money out in the community than it once did and it pays lip service to some environmental issues when it suits the companies purpose to figure …
Neighbors in the News
New Orleans I give the New York Times begrudging credit for their coverage of New Orleans both during and after Katrina. They have been committed to the story and stayed on it with a couple of reporters to this day. Some of their coverage drives me crazy and the too frequent, top-down, “get ‘r done!” …