https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We would all love to simply believe that the police are there, and have always been there, as the slogan goes, “to serve and protect.” Jill Lepore, the noted Harvard historian and frequent New Yorker indefatigable and invaluable contributor, in a recent piece in …
Month: August 2020
Counting Matters
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08032020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In yet another concern, with the US election looming ever closer, is a new report that Commerce Department officials and others around the White House are trying to speed up the already troubled census count in order to have it finish early. This is …
The West Stays Weird
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08022020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We humped the highway back home through Texas. It was a great trip. It was time. We have some observations for what they are worth. We read that the governor of New Mexico is angling for a job in a potential, hoped for Biden …