New Orleans Professor john powell visited with our Year End / Year Begin meeting. This is a good friend of organizing and ACORN who I have gotten to know much better while we have been serving together on the Tides board. He is also just a heavyweight thinker and smart as a tack …
Month: December 2007
Cisneros Housing To-Do List
New Orleans We were fortunate to be able to get former HUD Secretary and Mayor of San Antonio Henry Cisneros to come by the Year End / Year Begin Meeting and give some perspectives on his short — but difficult — list of what needed to be done in rebuilding housing policy in a new …
Steroids
New Orleans Former Senator George Mitchell’s report was crawling across the screen as we toasted the end of an interesting labor retreat before the Year End meeting. The morning papers were full of the reports of various juicing that major league baseball players had reportedly used to stay in the game at the top of …