Houston At 4:30 AM in the morning, as we pulled up to my son Chaco’s house, he turned to me and said, “We’re not doing this again!” He was right. It was crazy to bolt over, hell for leather, to Houston from New Orleans in time to see the first game of the World …
Management Orders in Afghanistan
New Orleans I had the equivalent of one of those Hollywood slap-in-the-face wakeups after giving my son a lift to open up at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse. I was listening to NPR until I could connect to WAMF, and they were running an interview with Zalmay Khalilzad, who, among other jobs, most recently served as a special envoy …
Taxing Strategies
New Orleans It’s hard to believe that any of us want to talk about taxes, but it’s hard to avoid the discussion since next to the act of declaring war, they are one of the most powerful forces that governments exert over their citizens. You may think I’m going there because of …
Shareholder Democracy, Maybe?
Pearl River Among the many, many myths of capitalism, especially at this late stage, is that shareholders have any real say in the direction of the companies where they hold stock. Called shareholder democracy, it’s anything but. The deck has always been stacked for management and incumbent board members, particularly in the collection of …
Emergency Broadband Now
New Orleans One of the pandemic programs that may be cruising below the radar, but which could be a critical step on lowering the digital divide, is the FCC’s program for emergency broadband. On Wade’s World , I talked to the digital equity coordinator for the City of Little Rock, Maddie Long, about the …