Los Angeles ACORN’s foreclosure prevention negotiations have picked up momentum behind the scenes again recently. Last week solid progress made with teams at Merrill Lynch in New York and WAMU in Seattle. Next week another face-to-face round in Dallas with GMAC and other metroplex area servicers on the docket. A call with Wells this …
Month: May 2008
The Price of Race
Los Angeles As Obama gets closer to finalizing the Democratic nomination and the 50-50 odds that we may actually have an African-American as President, hardly 40 years after finally making sure that African-Americans could actually vote, sinks into the electorate and the chattering classes, it was interesting to note in a recent Economist some …
A Win in Missouri and a Planton in Oaxaca
New Orleans Two notes from yesterday to pass on. One is some good news in Missouri at least temporarily. The final day of the legislative session passed on without the haters and baiters there succeeding in putting a measure on the November ballot requiring proof of citizenship to vote. Our own voting rights …