Chicago I’ve been to many union conventions over the years, both here and abroad. They tend to be well organized, orderly, often even scripted affairs, very much like political conventions, because, duh, they are political conventions. Whether that’s a state convention of the AFL-CIO in Arkansas or Louisiana or something huge like the conventions …
Cry for Me Red Louisiana
New Orleans It’s painful to have a backrow seat in the Floridification of Louisiana. After an eight-year interlude with John Bel Edwards, a Democrat in the powerful governor’s posit in Louisiana as an offset to the largely Republican legislature, the election of the far right former Attorney General Jeff Landry as governor, coupled …
Housing Costs Trigger Homeless Spread
New Orleans In New Orleans, Lucha, my Australian Shepherd, and I walk to the Mississippi River and back every morning in the predawn. She knows the drill and has her favorites stops along the route where she likes to sniff and piddle, but both of us, now about the same age in dog …