New Orleans In an excellent book on community building in the wake of disasters of historic proportion, A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit raises a number of insightful points about what she refers to as “elite panic.” In post-Katrina New Orleans we saw this all the time, the predictions of dire consequences and the …
Author: wade
Laundry List for new Consumer Bureau
New Orleans After much sound and fury the Obama Administration seems to have slipped Professor Elizabeth Warren in through the side door of the White House to setup the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It’s all confusing since the Bureau is squeezed between the Federal Reserve and Treasury Departments, and Warren herself has been snuck …
More Catholic Funding Controversies
New Orleans Dan Petegorsky sent me a couple of emails over my last couple of days in Toronto. Dan has been the solid rock of the Western States Center, a progressive training, research, and support center for non-profits and progressives in the western US, for the last number of years and is now handling special …