New Orleans Here’s an interesting quote and concept courtesy of Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas, speaking in Tennessee yesterday on his dark horse race for the Republican nomination for President. According to AP writer, David Espo, he said, “…Wal-Mart Republicans knew long before Wall Street that the economy was headed for trouble. ‘They …
Month: February 2008
On the Wire
New Orleans For several years now “The Wire” has been the best show on television. The gritty realities of life in Baltimore resonate to anyone working these streets. This year in the final season of the David Simon piece we are watching the continued collapse of institutions without resources: the public sector …
Endymion Parking
New Orleans ACORN bought a new national headquarters on Canal Street, the storied center line between the French Quarter and the CBD (Central Business District). We are twenty-six blocks from the River. From the window in my new office I can see the Superdome and much of downtown. We are hardly moved in on …