New Orleans Recently in the wake of his impending new book, Prince Charles of England made headlines throughout the UK and India, by holding up the Dharavi mega-slum in Mumbai as a “model” for sustainable development. An interesting observation. Vinod Shetty, director of the ACORN Foundation (India) in Mumbai and ACORN’s Dharavi Project and I …
Month: October 2010
Voter Registration Down, No Duh
New Orleans The popular Politico blog by Ben Smith on October 15th drew the obvious conclusion last week about the report that voter registration numbers are significantly down, especially in lower income districts, that allowing the right to take ACORN out of the equation and chilling virtually all large scale registration efforts will be a …
Mozilo Pimps Out SEC for $100 Million
New Orleans Angelo Mozilo help found Countrywide and ran it for years until dumping it off to Bank America. Many of the subprime and ARM products were toxic and account part of the collapse of the real estate markets and banking empires all around the Great Recession. The SEC trumped a settlement with Mozilo in …