New Orleans There was a full-page profile of sorts on Frances Fox Piven, now an 86-year old professor emeritus of political science of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The headline was, “The Unlikely Revival of a ‘60’s Radical” with the subhead of “Not All Liberals are Ready to March …
Month: May 2019
Developers and their Fixers Hustle Tax Breaks and Opportunity Zones
New Orleans Sometimes secrets are hidden in the wide open as they were recently, thanks to the daily New York Times and Wall Street Journal, both of which were offering tips for developers and real estate speculators on how to use tax incentives and tax dodges to best affect. If you ever wondered how …
New Immigration Proposal is All Politics and Bad Policy
New Orleans There used to be a saying about putting a new proposal in the circular file, meaning of course the trash basket in an office. The White House equivalent of the circular basket seems to be to assign something to Trump advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Once he gets his hands on a policy …