New Orleans In the small shelf of books I have on the ways and means of the Great Recession, how the crash came to occur, and what it means for the future, there is a 360 degree circle of finger pointing, blame, and shame. As William Cowan astutely argues in How We Got the Crash Wrong …
Month: May 2012
ACORN Brand Burns Hot as Witch Hunt Continues
New Orleans Election Day of 2010 ACORN in the United States closed its doors, but the ACORN brand still burns hot and true as the rightwing whacko witch hunt continues unabated. Coming into another election season where not only voter suppression but wholesale attacks on anything remotely progressive are likely to be on the menu …
Times-Picayune Goes Digital While Changes Prove Alienation from Community
New Orleans My hometown paper, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, suddenly announced after being scooped by the New York Times, their radical plans to cease being a paper. They were less frank about their total desertion of New Orleans as their hometown, though their intentions are explicit. Inarguably times have changed for daily newspapers and the …