San Francisco Wal-Mart sales are slipping. It’s stock in on a skid. Expansion plans have been rolled back in the US. This year the company closed shop in Germany and Korea. There’s no smiley face on this season for Wal-Mart. I should have known when they saw Reliance grabbing their business model and threatening to run …
Author: wade
Two Good Hits in Mudsville!
San Francisco The papers all over the country today and yesterday were full of good news for Katrina survivors in the vast New Orleans diaspora. One federal judge ruled several days ago that insurance companies could not walk away from all claims for hurricane damage for victims without flood insurance by claiming that there was …
Behind from the Beginning
New Orleans There are few things that I read that have the ability to simply shock and startle, but a piece by Paul Tough in the Sunday New York Times called “What it Takes to Make a Student” was simply arresting. The argument in a nutshell is stark: lower income and minority children are disadvantaged virtually …