New Orleans A story in the Times of a Minnesota investigation of an aggressive debt collection company that might be breaking all kinds of HIPPA laws designed to protect patient care information along with other statues caught my eye. This seemed at first glance to be another story of our imploding health care crises. The …
Month: April 2012
Jane Jacobs Meeting Robert Moses in New Orleans
New Orleans For decades Robert Caro’s Power Broker, a biography of New York City’s parks, ports, bridges, and roads czar Robert Moses, has been required reading for community organizers interested in understanding how power works in cities. Jane Jacobs of course was the author and planning aficionado best known for her advocacy of human scale …
With a Corporate Culture Built on Bribery, Walmart Was Running with Plenty to Hide
New Orleans We told you so! We just couldn’t be heard clearly enough over the roaring engines of the corporate spinning machinery of Walmart in September 2005. Let’s set the stage exactly. In Florida at the sharp point of the organizing engagement at Walmart as the curtain was being pulled down by all of the …