New Orleans This week for the first time I attended a meeting of the Port Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans. Having written the head of the Port for help in getting more fairtrade coffee shipped through New Orleans and receiving no answer, it seemed I had little choice but to take a shot at …
Month: August 2012
ACORN Ghost Hunters Smoking Dope on Corporate Trail
New Orleans In the typical rightwing kneejerk, the other day all of the bloggers circulated a so-called report with blaring headlines produced in some inexplicable, sloppy way by something called Cause for Action, calling themselves “advocates for government accountability.” The list was enjoyably ludicrous, but at the same time dangerously chilling. The report called itself …
FCC Notes Broadband Failures While Still Snubbing Digital Divide
New Orleans FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski released the annual report on broadband internet access this week in Washington, DC, bemoaning the fact that the United States is still not among the leaders in broadband speed and that 19,000,000 do not have access. The FCC thinks this is mainly a rural problem, and god knows, having just …