Minneapolis Timing is everything, so while in the Twins for the Association Board, Kevin Whelan, a long time staff member, let me now that Give Us Wings was having its annual gala. I jumped at the chance to get to attend and see how Mary Steiner, his mother, had assembled the support for the …
Month: April 2008
Progress Report
Minneapolis The day kicked off for the Association Board with an action joining Minnesota ACORN members at the trashed out and abandoned Governor’s Mansion in St. Paul, demanding the Governor sign the foreclosure protection bill we had helped pass in the legislature. No sooner than the board was tucking into some famous spaghetti …
Robber Barons
Minneapolis The rest of us may be fighting off the recession, foreclosures, or globally just trying to afford food and fuel at any price, but the list came out the other day of the paydays for big hedge fund operators and we now may be close to a new understanding of “robber barons.” The top …