New Orleans A large coalition ranging from ACORN to the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and NAACP has come together along with our usual comrades, the Center for Responsible Lending, Consumers Federation of America, Consumers Union, and others to try a new and very public tactic in the ongoing war against predatory lending. We’re going Madison …
Month: March 2007
Big Box Partners
Orlando WARN and all of our allies went to the first reading and hearing in Orlando for the Big Box Ordinance in the County on Tuesday night. I had come in for meetings with the staff and, originally, for the hearing until it was scheduled for the evening rather than the morning at the last …
Perfect Circles
New Orleans In New Orleans like many other places we have a self-absorbed and self-serving elite and unaccountable bunch of goo-goos, as the good government types have been called for almost a century, which collect themselves under the banner of the BGR — Bureau of Government Research. Today they manage to occupy some real estate …