New Orleans A front page article in the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate noted that days over fifty years ago then Transportation Secretary John Volpe pulled the plug on plans to build an expressway that would have run along the Mississippi River and through the historic Vieux Carre, transforming and destroying parts of the famous New …
Category: ACORN
Hospitals Doing Harm to Patients Paychecks
New Orleans With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, hospitals were on notice. Costs were out of control and people were going to be looking. Prices were going to be made public so some patients could compare. Hospitals were going to be able to be ranked by health outcomes. Accountability was coming! This …
Google Sidewalk Project is Still Too Sketchy and Undemocratic
New Orleans Maybe I should shut-up about the Sidewalk development project being proposed by Google in Toronto on 800-acres. ACORN and some of our allies went after them from the day they won the bid to submit proposals on the issue of the lack of affordable housing in a city that is caught in an …