Los Angeles After a week in California from Benicia to San Francisco to Oakland and finally Los Angeles, I found myself scratching my head as I headed home about what I was learning from people’s comments and questions about the continued attack on citizen wealth in America. In Oakland Alfredo Avila with the Applied Research …
Month: September 2009
Bailout the Poor
San Francisco Erik Eckholm of the Times is one of the last reporters on the “poverty beat” in the country, and by god I almost feel a personal obligation to read his pieces and try to get the word out before the paltry news of the poor disappears from papers altogether. He was on the …
Republicans Going Brit
San Francisco Before running off to Books, Inc, I watched the Obama speech at the Tides Momentum conference. I was prepared to be disappointed, so I was pleasantly surprised that the President had fight in him and was pushing hard across the board, including on the public alternatives. I liked the fact that he was …