Greenville Hurricane Irma hit Puerto Rico more than one-month ago. Few have missed the reports of devastation on the island and the continuing deprivation of its people. The majority of the island still lacks access to clean water and electricity. We have a many connections to the pain and problems of the island. Willie Cosme …
Month: October 2017
Has Arkansas Become a Walmart “Company” State?
New Orleans Hey, I get it. Arkansas is what it is, a smaller, poorer state than many in the statistical match-ups in one category after another. But, having spent a lot of time there and lived there for more than seven years in the 1970s, I can assure you it has many charms, wonderful people, …
The Pervasiveness of Sexual Harassment and Abuse
New Orleans The incessant drumbeat of revelations of sexual harassment and abuse from all sectors of American life is depressing and tedious in its horror and banality. The formula is repetitive and unimaginative. Men with power over women, usually older, never wiser, using their position to abuse, and, too often, once succeeding, then repeating over …