New Orleans Contrary to popular opinion, it is actually a very, very rare event for a New Orleans city politician to go to jail for some kind of corruption, regardless of our reputation. The hometown paper, The Times Picayune, campaigned mercilessly for investigations and convictions of Mayor Marc Morial and his troops, largely to no …
Month: January 2011
Elizabeth Warren’s Two-Income Trap
New Orleans With the passage of Dodd-Frank and the advent of the coming Consumer Protection Finance Agency there was a huge hubbub from business and others opposing the appointment of Harvard Law Professor and bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren to run the agency. Supposedly she was opposed by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the bank bailout Wall …
Bywater Bohemia
New Orleans Having been on extended home-leave of almost a month before I hit the road again soon for Toronto, New York City, and DC, it’s been interesting taking the new measure of my neighborhood in New Orleans. Bywater has morphed from what the New York Times called a “working class neighborhood” several miles …