Charleston Tornadoes through Atlanta slowed everyone coming into South Carolina as spring weather began to roar. Pouring rain knocked out a transformer near the hotel and lights were off at the hotel. Being from New Orleans, I knew what to do — go to sleep. Turned out that we were less than half a …
Month: March 2008
Tax as a Weapon in the Fight
New Orleans One of the recent breakthroughs in the fight against the corporatization of retail in India being waged through the India FDI Watch Campaign has been to seek to win tax “holidays” for farmers and small vendors selling vegetables to provide a competitive edge against the big box intrusions. Babu Kahn, our organizer …
Politically Exposed Person
Miami Fly overnight from Lima to Miami one has the opportunity to wait in the airport for quite a bit to get to New Orleans, which today presented the opportunity to read about the travails of Eliot Spitzer over and over again. The most frightening article was not about the soon-to-be former governor’s mishaps, …