Financial Meltdown Coherence

Community Organizing Labor Organizing

Financial Meltdown Coherence             New Orleans               Jim Lynch, my old friend and colleague from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Ernie Dumas, former editorial page editor for the Arkansas Gazette a million years ago, were early Saturday morning correspondents as they shared a story from The Weekly Standard on moral hazard.  What struck …

Continue Reading

Tactical Watch: A Different Drumbeat

Labor Organizing

Tactical Watch:  A Different Drumbeat             New Orleans               The New York State Court of Appeals concluded several months that the drumming being done by SEIU 32B-J on plastic containers, pots, and cans in front of the Empire State Building was neither pre-empted by federal labor law nor seemingly part of their overall free speech rights …

Continue Reading

New Year’s Resolutions

Personal Writings

New Year’s Resolutions January 2, 2009    New Orleans               I actually believe in New Year’s Resolutions.  Foolishly, I try to sell family members, co-workers, and others on the power of fresh resolve and conviction in the face of a new year, and note grudgingly how my advocacy seems to take here.  Years ago I …

Continue Reading