New Orleans Thomas Frank wrote a well received political book a couple of years ago entitled, What’s the Matter with Kansas?, and the answer seems to be: a lot! More evidence was in the headlines and story from Salina, Kansas this week when the ex-head of the Republican Party in that state, Kris Kobach, announced …
Month: May 2009
Labor Chaos
New Orleans Sensitive, internal memos and financial information are leaking like a sieve exposing vulnerabilities in some of our storied unions. This hurts workers and all of us. In labor we need some real leadership and something likea “Geneva convention” or “Marquis of Queensberry” rules for how to handle internal conflict within unions without eroding …
Wal-Mart’s First Indian Store
New Orleans The first rollout of a store in India from the fruit of the Bharti-Wal-Mart partnership is eminent. The Journal was trumpeting the in Amritsar in the Punjab scheduled for next Tuesday. Word in India from Dharmendra Kumar, director of India FDI Watch Campaign is that they will have to “postpone…opening which was scheduled…as …