New Orleans Facebook’s constant unfulfilled promises to fix the problems with their platform and its role in offering voice to violence seems to have finally come to the “sell by” date. Patience has been exhausted. The evidence has mounted steadily and seems to have hit a tipping point. First, their #2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, …
Month: September 2018
The Mural Mile on New Orleans’ St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans For decades the ACORN headquarters has been somewhere around the intersection of St. Claude Avenue and Elysian Fields Avenue. We were ten blocks from the Mississippi River for many years, and we are again. The old riddle used to be, “What street has its head in the river and its feet in the …
Republicans May Capture the Court, but Lose a Generation of Women & Religious
New Orleans It’s appalling to read almost anything about Judge Kavanagh and the relentless, tone deaf efforts of the Republican majority in the Senate to push through his nomination. Even as hearings loom and his victim negotiates to come forward, there is a tragic sense of inevitability shrouding this nomination that now reduces the country …