Was Roseanne in the Wilderness Too Long?

ACORN

New Orleans   It is beyond dispute that Roseanne Barr has gone off the deep end with a string of racist and anti-Semitic tweets along with a tight embrace of a startling array of conspiracy theories and conspiracy promoters.  Did Trump and Twitter finally enable us to see the real Roseanne that has been lurking at …

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The Rich are Wheeling and Dealing for Themselves at Private Foundations

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

New Orleans       The Wall Street Journal and its reporter, Andrea Fuller, provided a public service for all of us by reviewing the publicly available tax filings of thousands of private foundations.   Their subject was the willful lack of compliance with the almost fifty-year prohibition against self-dealing.  Self-dealing occurs when private foundations do business with …

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