New Orleans If you look at a map of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline designed to move heavy, tar sands oil from the Alberta, Canada to refineries and shipping around Port Arthur and Houston, Texas, it doesn’t run through either Arkansas or Louisiana soil, yet somehow the pipeline is already running through the heart of …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Nickeled and Dimed By Both Wall Street and Main Street
New Orleans In the wake of the Great Recession and general financial meltdown we all like to think we’ve got our eyes peeled to all of the slick shenanigans devised by Wall Street wheeler-dealers. With billion dollar bank settlements still regularly reported in the daily papers and with a new governmental body, the Consumer Financial Protection …
May Day in Memphis, Istanbul, and Bengaluru
New Orleans The first May Day in the United States saw 300,000 people hit the streets in solidarity with the issues of workers. Fast forward to 2014 and there was not a single note in any of the local papers I read daily or the national ones about any notion of May Day even existing …