New Orleans The Pew Research Center says that only 43% of households nationally with annual incomes of less than $25,000 have access to the internet compared to 70% nationally with broadband. Only 55% of African-Americans have broadband internet. Why? Well, not surprisingly, surveys conducted by independent sources, including pollsters hired by the Wall Street Journal …
Month: October 2014
Organized Labor Speaking Without One Voice
New Orleans It is one thing when we all know the king has no clothes on, but it’s a whole different problem when Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal and its op-ed pages broadcasts it far and wide. While we watch the Koch Brothers drive an ideological machinery pushing businesses to hew the line politically hard …
There Goes the Neighborhood
New Orleans I don’t know why I continue to be surprised at the changes in my own neighborhood, Bywater in New Orleans. I’ve seen the joggers, dog walkers, and strollers in the streets. I’ve noticed the porkpie hipster hats and the bicycles rolling by at all hours of the day and night. I’ve read the statistics, …