New Orleans Tech lobbyists, led by Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are now spending almost as much as the automobile industry on Washington, DC lobbyists. That’s not good news for the rest of us. A lot of the lobbying, according to recent reports, at both the federal, state, and local level is from Uber and the …
Month: November 2015
Is the Chattering Class Calling for the Poor to Organize?
New Orleans The darned poor! They are so exasperating! They won’t get jobs, when there are no jobs to be gotten. They won’t simply abandon their children, when there is no daycare they can afford or place to put them. They still want to eat even when they don’t have enough money for food. They …
Lightning Strikes and a Democrat is Elected Governor in the South
New Orleans Even when State Representative John Bel Edwards from small town Amite, Louisiana, known for little of nothing other than being near where Abita beer is made and on the way to Mississippi, led in the open primary against three Republicans, when asked about his real chances of winning, I was doubtful. He wasn’t …