New Orleans In the painful rebuilding of New Orleans we have discussed the exhilarating and depressing saga of the Alvar Street Library in the Bywater neighborhood of the city several times. As faithful readers recall, it was re-opened with great fanfare as a project of the American Library Association at their convention this summer. It …
Month: September 2006
Distribution?
Tampa We spent the day speculating and probing, trying to figure out the weaknesses — the chinks in the armor — in Wal-Mart’s vaunted distribution network. Our crack team of WARN Tampa based research team of Colin, Hillary, and Skylar kibitzed and griped with Rick Smith and me until light gradually started to emerge from …
Giving Back Labor
New Orleans Thinking about Labor Day this year was easier. I was not in Rochester, New York with Chaco running from Katrina and stuck on the road, so it had to be better. With the split in labor the annual Labor Day picnic which Benny Hernandez from the Sheet Metal Workers and I reinstituted some …