New Orleans Believe it or not, Equifax, one of the three mega-data collecting credit agencies in the United States in their incredible laxness in handling the vital personal data of Americans allowed 143 million of them to hacked over a two-month period. They said nothing, and did just about nothing until disclosing the information. They …
Month: September 2017
Lessons of Disaster
New Orleans We keep a constant hurricane watch at my house. Anyone who has ever had the eye of a hurricane pass over them, keeps their eye on every hurricane. Having just seen the impact of Harvey in Houston and Beaumont, I have been upset over some of the lessons forgotten since Katrina. I have …
Major Lease Purchase Option Company Comes to Agreement in Campaign
New Orleans Agreements are always hard to win and in the campaign to stop predatory practices in the contract for deed, land purchase, lease and rent-to-own markets in lower income and working communities any such understandings would have seemed unlikely as the campaign began in 2017. But, now after months of actions, demands, and back-and-forth …