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 …
Category: Financial Justice
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 …
Uber Down, Taxis Up?
Little Rock Uber is supposedly worth $51 billion dollars according to Silicon Valley and some eyes-in-the-sky deep-pocketed investors. The company claims its business is providing an app on your phone or computer so you can summon a ride. Sometimes the ride is cheaper than a normal cab, since Uber is claiming not to be a …