Getting the Lead Out

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      We have to take progress where we can get it in these dark days at perhaps the tail end of the Trump administration.  There are scores of last-minute aberrations from muscling an appointment to the Supreme Court to further eroding labor law protections that are …

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Trump Life:  Death, Yes, Taxes, No!

National Politics

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09282020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     I had an elementary school teacher whose constant rejoinder was that “the only thing certain in life was death and taxes.”  At a tender age, neither absolute means much.  What are taxes?  When is death?  As we age, we find out way too much …

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Conspiracies Cut Both Ways in Retarding the Vote

DC Politics National Politics Voting Rights

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River      The gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson used to have a patented expression as he wrote about everything from Las Vegas to political conventions.  He would write, “…and then it got weird” in his fear-and-loathing reports.  One thing we can truly say about this election …

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