Denver For several years Local 100 represented buggy drivers in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Any tourist in the city has seen the mule driven buggies lined up in front of Jackson Square to give tours which are a mixture of fact, fiction, and raw personality from the drivers themselves. In meeting after meeting …
Month: August 2010
Fence Riding in Texas and Louisiana
Canyon Flying, I’m herded from winged silver cylinder from city A to city B, and once there jump into the messy lives and chaos of people and our times. For a decade or so every winter Orell Fitzsimmons and I used to take a week, plus or minus, and go fence riding, as I would …
Macro Interest and Micro Loans
Shreveport An article in the NY Times asked a number of interesting questions about the $350 million IPO (Initial public offering) for SKS Microfinance including the push-out of the nonprofits by private investors, the use of the new money the nonprofits will still make along with where it will go and who will run it, …