New Orleans It’s only a matter of time before someone sues James O’Keefe, the video scammer, for false advertising to prevent him from calling his operation Project Veritas, since veritas means truth in Latin, and he has no clue what that is. O’Keefe’s latest tempest in a teapot had been his accusations against the Battleground Texas …
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Remembering Elena Hanggi, Jack Lavey, and the Wilbur Mills Expressway Fight
New Orleans The obituary for Elena Hanggi Giddings said so little that it was almost hard for me to believe that this was the same woman I knew so well and so long. Her stint as chair of the regional advisory board of the Federal Home Loan Bank in Dallas was acknowledged, along with her …
Banks Shirking Responsibility for Foreclosed Property Maintenance
New Orleans I woke up to headlines indicating that the National Fair Housing Alliance has accused Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank of effectively “red lining” blight into largely African-American and Latino neighborhoods in 35 different cities in 15 metropolitan areas. Recently the alliance added New Orleans, Dallas, New Haven, and Hampton Roads, Virginia to an amended complaint …