New Orleans Props to David Leonhardt, the Times financial columnist, and Louis Menard, the oft published New Yorker critic at large for raising the issue of both opportunity, access, and value for higher education for the masses. Leonhardt did so in a recent column about the job shift of the former president of Amherst who …
Month: June 2011
Republican Grandstanding on ACORN Defunding
ew Orleans It isn’t hard to hear the death rattle of desperation in the latest farcical efforts of Congressman Steve King to try to revive a dying political career and a blogger trying to flack a mail-order book at the expense of ACORN, the once great community organization. King tacked an amendment on a Homeland …
An ACORN Museum in Little Rock
Little Rock Zach Polett worked with me for more than 30 years, so basically forever. I was first introduced to Mary Mayeaux, who would become his wife, by my high school buddy, Danny Russell who was working with her at the welfare office in New Orleans when ACORN opened up there in 1976. Danny and …