Detroit There is a an argument that might be made, even if it is difficult to survive in practice, that there is a strength that could be found in ACORN’s leadership governance from something that works almost like a two-party system with an Administration Party and a Opposition Party. The theory would follow …
Month: October 2007
Emptying the Streets
Detroit The ACORN National Board’s fall meeting was held downtown on Washington and Michigan Boulevard. Washington’s statue was across from the hotel’s front door. Across the street on the other side was the gutted-out shell of the Book Cadillac, the formerly grand dame of Detroit hotels, being rehabilitated into a Westin combo hotel-condo …
Notes from the Long Road
Paris Like a kid before Christmas, I was up and up early to catch the Tube to Heathrow. I just about opened up the Bayswater Station. I was almost 30 minutes early for the first train from Glochester at 5:54 AM on the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow. I was going home, and …