Washington I’ve often told this story. It’s about a big, rookie mistake I made as a green organizer of 20 years old trying to figure out how to be head organizer of Massachusetts Welfare Rights when total craziness broke out between two contending groups of leadership. Because of some idealistically pure view of staff and …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Water Wars
Austin It was great to be welcomed by some of the progressive community in Austin last night to talk about Citizen Wealth, but to me the most interesting conversations continued to be about the strains of development in and around the continuing Austin boomtown, particularly at the intersection of development and water. One reason water …
Count Barney Frank
New Orleans I don’t really need Google Alerts to keep up these days, especially when my hometown paper, The Times-Picayune, devotes one full page to six stories about ACORN. Throw in the Washington Post, USA Today, McClatchy wire, AP, New York Times, and the Journal, and I think this is in fact what is known …