New Orleans I may still be under a gag order on ACORN’s final settlement with Wells Fargo, but who knows at this point and who would care now. Wells Fargo was always about hard ball and hard bargaining, but when we moved after than in 2004 after settling first with Ameriquest and then Household Finance …
Month: July 2011
No Account and No Accountability Charter Schools
New aOrleans Few do not know that New Orleans schools are “ground zero” in the so-called “reform” movement to privatize public school systems with charter schools. With the excuse of Hurricane Katrina the State of Louisiana, which had never run a school (never, ever!) in a wink-and-nod deal took a $20 million federal carrot to …
James Murdoch is NOT a Wimp
New Orleans Just for the record I’m getting tired of all of the backbiting and whispering in the papers and the television news about why Rupert’s son, James Murdoch, a tall strapping lad in his 30’s, did not stand up for the old man when under shaving cream assault the other day before Parliament. I …