Seattle & New Orleans: Tax day finally passed, and we were in it up to our ears this year! A casual conversation with Luz Vega-Marquis, President of the Marguerite Casey Foundation based in Seattle, Beth Rosales of the same, Drummond Pike of the Tides Foundation, and myself over lunch in the rain a little more than …
Category: ACORN
Community Bakery = Community Institution
Little Rock Zach Polett and I met for breakfast to review ACORN’s political operations and of course we went to the Community Bakery on Main Street right above the Wilbur Mills Expressway as it dips to the east. This was not a new thing for me, but an old habit. For long stretches in the almost …
Blue-Green Coalitions
San Francisco: This is the season when the blue of the morning sky is at its darkest and most beautiful blue an hour before dawn. This morning the wind had been shaking the hotel room and on the bay the waves were whipping and gulls were flying in place and making no progress. Closer to …