New Orleans The more studies that are done, the more time that passes, the more it seems impossible to get around the core issue embedded in the compromises of the Affordable Care Act: it’s just not affordable for lower income families. The government’s projections for the current signup period are frankly modest at about nine …
Month: November 2015
Drew, Mississippi, My Mother’s Home
New Orleans It was just another day for my mother, but it was her birthday, and she was now 92 years’ old, and that’s quite something in itself. Several times during the week before she had asked me if her mother was still alive, and I would explain that she had died forty years earlier. …
Hell of a Highway, Highway to Hell: I-30 and I-630
Little Rock Every once in a while some self-delusion seeps in, no matter how hard you try to prevent it. A couple years ago the Arkansas Times wrote a cover story that essentially was a 35-year later vindication of the huge battles ACORN had fought and led in Little Rock to try to block and …