Washington A line in an Associated Press story in the local papers caught my eye: “Since 2008, roughly a third of major US metro areas lost a great percentage of white-collar jobs than blue-collar jobs.” That’s not the political and economic headliner that most people are following. The Trump administration is trying to save the …
Month: December 2018
Entergy’s Impunity, When Lobbying, Fines, and Payoffs are Disguised as Donations
New Orleans In the Age of Trump, corporate impunity is reaching new extremes around the country, but it has also infected local and state politics as well. Entergy, the giant utility provider in the mid-south states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, as well as parts of east Texas and of course New Orleans, is rapidly …