New Orleans The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, a beleaguered federal agency much needed by consumers and much despised by the entire phalanx of Republican governmental officeholders, has released new rules for the payday lending industry. It wasn’t the full list of Christmas presents that many of us had sent the CFPB Santa Claus, but there …
Month: October 2017
Arkansas ACORN Leader, Walter Nunn
New Orleans In the early 1970s, I used to run into Walter Nunn all the time. He and his wife were the primary leaders of the ACORN group in Oak Forest. He sat on the ACORN board in Little Rock and statewide in those days, but was always more of a back-of-the-room guy, than the …
Is Sexually Predatory Behavior Really on the Run in America?
New Orleans Here’s the picture we’re supposed to be getting from the mass media about sexually predatory behavior. It’s an old, white man problem, and it’s being rooted out in office after office, boardroom after boardroom. We have the pantheon of Fox News and network stars caught, as we might say, with their pants around …