Houston Watching the World Cup in South Africa, reading the stories in the Times from slums outside of Johannesburg, makes me look at the calendar for the countdown to the next huge international sports event: The Commonwealth Games! In October teams from all over the former colonies of the British Empire will be parachuting into …
Month: June 2010
Voucher Abuse and Charter School Hijacking in New Orleans
New Orleans The fight to get anyone to hold the charter school explosion to any accountability at all anywhere in the country is mainly a struggle to get anyone’s attention, since for the most part they could be getting away with murder and no one would know given the huge decentralization and the total lack …
Toronto Police Tactics at G20
New Orleans Mayor David Miller was whining in the New York Times about how the isolated black bloc anarchist violence on Saturday at the G20 march and rally had hurt the image of the City of Toronto as four police cars burned and an American Apparel store was even hotter than their ad campaign, but …