Chicago Wal-Mart conceded the inevitable and pulled its application for an industrial bank in Utah. ACORN, WARN, and half of the Western world had opposed the application, which was clearly not moving forward. We had predicted the withdrawal repeatedly right here in these notes. But, don’t get the big head so quickly. Wal-Mart easily got …
Month: March 2007
Gutting Fever in New Orleans
New Orleans We have not talked about it much recently, but 5 days of every week we have continued to send out 3 or 4 gutting crews a day to clean-out houses for people in New Orleans on the ACORN list who want to come home. What the NCAA basketball championships see as “March Madness,” …
Pentagon Protest II
New Orleans Hope springs more eternally than, well, spring it seems. At the best one could say that the 40th anniversary repeat of the March on the Pentagon from the same date in 1967 as this weekend was beaten by the weather. Reports estimated that there might have been between 10,000 and 20,000 in Washington, …