New Orleans My mother is from Sunflower County, Mississippi. They raise a lot of cotton and soybeans around there and once upon a time a ton of mischief, but one other thing they seem to specialize in is manners. We were force fed manners from birth and even as you get sloppy about it, the …
Month: August 2009
Teach 4 America: Union Busters?
New Orleans Reading the New Orleans Times-Picayune this morning was troubling. I had thought about this problem before, but was confronted with too many telling and disturbing statistics to continue to ignore it today. Like everyone, I want to believe that Teach for America and similar programs are good, not just for the young folks …
Truth in Lending 3 Day Delay
New Orleans There are some people who spend their lives convincing folks that up is actually down. Mortgage brokers are the escape artists of the subprime lending business and after Wall Street should be at the top of the list of responsible and predatory parties in the entire meltdown. Amazingly and seemingly without a blush, …