New Orleans I’m not a fan of golf. Very little about the game has every appealed to me, partially for class reasons. As a kid, every blue moon we would make a couple of bucks retrieving balls in the watery ponds at the City Park course for a quarter a ball. I once caddied …
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Sweating Labor in the Gig Economy and People by Tech
New Orleans In a piece about climate change, one author quoted a commonplace statement that the corporate business model in a capitalist economy puts no inherent value on public resources like land, air, and water, so that the costs are for acquisition, extraction, marketing, and delivery without concern for the after affects like global …
Reining in Electric Coops, as They Buck and Whine
New Orleans The problem with celebrating our victories is that often we need to do so pretty quickly before the forces of reaction overrun us again. Hopefully, this won’t be the situation in a recent critical breakthrough in the Public Service Commission regulation of rural electric cooperatives in Louisiana, but it’s worth concern. A …