New Orleans Sometimes at ACORN’s annual legislative conferences in Washington, DC, I would be just in and out, but one time I overlapped a contentious session between Harvard’s Robert Putnam of Bowling Alone fame and ACORN leaders and members. The members were arguing that their experience with ACORN and their local community organizations in their …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Walmart Upskilling or Too Good to be True
Little Rock Workers always need some good news around Labor Day and for the few that might have been reading the Wall Street Journal anytime around then, there was some amazing, life-changing, world-shaking news: Walmart had gotten religion. I don’t mean go-to-church religion, but a whole new corporate religion about how it was going to …
Contempt as Civil Disobedience Tactic
Little Rock What’s up with local politicians and their willingness to go to jail for refusing to obey court orders? Of course we have the Democratic Rowan County Kentucky clerk of court who felt like she could personally refuse to follow a US Supreme Court decision and a Republican federal court’s contempt order that she …