New Orleans North Carolina may get a bad rap for a lot of things out there and may be seen politically as red through and through, but when it comes to progressive, consumer friendly banking practices; North Carolina has arguably been the showcase state for good rules and regulations over the last …
Category: ACORN
The Call to Citizen Action
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania It was fun to talk to the crowd of more than 100 students crammed into the auditorium on a clear, brisk fall night. It was a back-to-the-50’s group of largely fresh faced, white teenagers and just twenties folks, largely drawn from the Middle Atlantic student catchment area, who in the main …
Darrell “McCarthy” Issa and the Non-Profit Purge
New Orleans Darrell Issa, the emerging Chair of the House Investigations Committee was interviewed the day after the election about how he saw his “work” shaping up. It was a little late for Halloween, but it was scarier than the worst fright movie. Some commentators took Issa’s remarks as conciliatory, which must be the result …