New Orleans I have hugely mixed feeling about my old high school in New Orleans, but finally I found myself in a situation, sitting next to another alum, my daughter, Dine’, where I found that I had never been prouder of the teachers at Benjamin Franklin High School than on that night in that auditorium. …
Month: May 2014
A Fighting Chance with Elizabeth Warren
New Orleans Political autobiographies, like dental visits, are absolutely something to be avoided, and when written by still active politicians, such works have to define egotistical self-serving. In the case of A Fighting Chance a new book by Elizabeth Warren, now United States Senator from Massachusetts, but still to her core a debate champion from …
Worried About Climate Change? Move to Arkansas, Mississippi, or Alabama
New Orleans The National Climate Assessment, a report written by a crew of scientists overseen by the White House, is coming out, and it’s a scorcher. The takeaway is that climate change isn’t coming, it’s already here. On an average we’re two degrees hotter throughout the United States. In some areas people need to start …