New Bloom

            Taipei         New Bloom was a fascinating operation on so many different levels.  Mainly, it is an on-line newspaper covering Taiwan and Southeast Asia.  It is also an all-volunteer social enterprise supported largely by coffee and liquor sales at its bar, because it is also an event space in the basement, hosting cultural events …

Bloomberg News: ACORN was Target of IRS

New Orleans   The headline in the New Orleans Times-Picayune read, “ACORN, based in N.O., was a target of IRS,” so it caught my eye.  The story to no surprise concerned revelations of recently available unedited documents from the IRS released by Congressman Elijah Cummings from Maryland and others that ACORN and its successor organizations were …