New Orleans Usually when you read about a book that a publisher spent $1.6 million and allowed the authors to take eight years to get thing together for a July roll-out, this is the back story for some beach book potboiler with plenty of steamy scenes and page flying fury. The money usually …
Month: July 2008
In a Minnesota Minute
New Orleans Wal-Mart learned yesterday in the Minnesota courts that minutes matter to workers as well as the company. After seven years state courts held that the company played fast and loose with rest breaks, meal breaks, training time, and about any other way that they could cheap the workforce. They …
Hoarding Food
New Orleans The global crises in rising food prices makes it clear how far away we really are from a global solution or program to deal with hunger and subsistence feeding programs for the poor around the world. Coupled with the increase in fuel costs which in many places is driving the pressure on …