New Orleans For several years, we have bombarded the FCC with complaints from our members in Little Rock, Houston, Shreveport and elsewhere about the travesty of Comcast’s so-called “internet essentials” program. Some will remember that a condition of the toothless FCC’s approval of Comcast’s giant acquisition of NBC/Universal was Comcast’s creation of a $10 internet access …
Category: Financial Justice
Keystone XL Pipeline Jamming Up Arkansas and Louisiana Politics
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 …
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 …