New Orleans I’d read the article in the Times’ “Your Money” column at the end of last year about banks arbitrarily closing customers’ accounts without notice or seemingly rhyme or reason. As they reported: …there are many frustrating things about this phenomenon: The account closings often come without warning. There is usually …
Category: Corporate Responsibility
Working – and Surviving – On Offshore Oil Platforms
Fayetteville, NC It’s a surprise when a big-league paper like the New York Times looks at the actual work that people do and how they do it, but actually it’s unusual when any news outlet takes a hard look behind the scene at the world of work and workers anytime. Perhaps even this time …
New Conservative Tactic – Stalemate and Gridlock
New Orleans It probably brings a grimace to the faces of many environmental and other lawyers when they keep having to repeat Chevron’s name favorably in court proceedings and papers these days. Chevron, of course, is the giant oil and energy company and the bête noire of environmentalists and many others everywhere because …