New Orleans In the host of commentary on the announcement by ACORN’s national management that the organization is closing its doors tomorrow, there have been two voices that have stood out particularly in my mind, because they ask the critical question about the future for the low and moderate income members and constituency that was …
Month: March 2010
Health Care Wars Ongoing
New Orleans Perhaps the number three rule of politics, right after “everything begins with a base” and “money rules,” is that the “devil is in the details.” Now that Congress has voted and the President has signed, we need to get off of the arguments about how few slices of the half-a-loaf we got, and …
Slum Population Increasing
New Orleans Annual report on the “State of the World’s Cities 2010/2011” from the United Nations – Habitat office in Nairobi is not a cheerful bunch of news. The headline grabber is that slum dwellers increased by another 51,000,000 over the last decade in the face of tons of press releases, conferences, and even sometimes …