New Orleans Mi companera was happy for a number of reasons this morning. She liked the fact that there was a positive comment about a Southerner on the front page of the New York Times. The reporter in dissecting the bad boy antics and ruthless operation of Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber, had told …
Month: April 2017
Heartbreaking Stories of Housing Ripoffs
New Orleans Meeting with friends and lawyers in Austin, Texas, including my longtime, go-to-counselor for organizational and personal matters, we had stopped briefly on the way to their celebrated annual spring crayfish boil for a cup of coffee and to watch marchers with homemade signs hearing towards the Texas capitol in the name of science. …
Charters Don’t Change School Segregation
New Orleans In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans public schools were hijacked through a state takeover that made the city the largest charter school experiment in the country. A special grant from President George W. Bush became an offer too good for the state to turn down as it muscled aside …