Cusco If ACORN represented the “gold standard in advocacy,” as I once heard a Gates Foundation program officer say to me about the work of New Orleans ACORN post-Katrina, then South Shore Bank in Chicago held a similar position in the community development world. One of our old friends from Little Rock, Bob Nash, who …
Month: May 2010
Hope for Immigration Reform: Kennesaw State and Highland Park
Cusco In the last several days two separate, but in my view, related events in very, very different parts of the country are starting what it takes to create change: make reform impossible to avoid because it’s too close to home! First, the girls’ basketball team in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park voted to …
Big Credit Card Win for the Biscuit Cookers
Cusco In the predawn I ran down to the lobby to check the on-line Times before we humped it to the mountain tops in Cusco, but I wasn’t looking for ball scores or editorials, but to see if the biscuit cookers – an old Arkansas term for consumers coined by the infamous Witt Stephens at …