New Orleans The other day brainstorming with Rick Smith, Ben, Colin, Beth, and Hillary — the core of the whole WARN team in Florida — we found ourselves talking about the contradictory problem of outsized superstores that we have fought many places versus grocery “deserts” that also concern us when communities are isolated from …
Category: Community Organizing
Tax Credits for Poor Workers St. Petersburg Talking about citizen wealth yesterday (and, yes, I’m fixated on this subject, because it’s also the subject of my book coming out this June, called: Citizen Wealth: The Campaign to Save Working Families, it seems when Obama came courting to Washington on Monday, he also threw out …
Financial Meltdown Coherence
Financial Meltdown Coherence New Orleans Jim Lynch, my old friend and colleague from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Ernie Dumas, former editorial page editor for the Arkansas Gazette a million years ago, were early Saturday morning correspondents as they shared a story from The Weekly Standard on moral hazard. What struck …