Frankfurt The latest word from insiders and lobbyists in Austin is that for the minute the bill to block all payroll deductions for public employees is bottled up in committee.Of course it could change in an instant. The latest word from Baton Rouge has two bills that might have been primarily directed at teachers but …
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Justice Delayed, Justice Denied: Katrina and MR-GO
New Orleans Almost a decade ago, the first reaction after Hurricane Katrina veered slightly to the east of New Orleans was that the city had been spared. We had ducked the bullet somehow. Wind and rain were everywhere, trees were falling, the storm was powerful and vicious, but we would be ok. By the next …
The Routinization of Charisma
New Orleans Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke at the funeral. Al Sharpton says he’s on his way to visit. The Mayor, an African-American woman commented about herself, the newly elected prosecutor for Baltimore, also an African-American woman, and the newly confirmed first-ever African-American Attorney-General in the United States, that in so many words if we can’t …