Kansas City: There is no small amount of excitement in writing about a significant victory in a serious and long-term fight as I did in reporting on the tentative agreement with H&R Block.  The campaigns are so intense and riveting that once done, the report feels mundane.  Partly because it is hard to adequately convey all …

Seattle & New Orleans: Tax day finally passed, and we were in it up to our ears this year!  A casual conversation with Luz Vega-Marquis, President of the Marguerite Casey Foundation based in Seattle, Beth Rosales of the same, Drummond Pike of the Tides Foundation, and myself over lunch in the rain a little more than …

 New York City: Today I attended the latest in what has been a long series of meetings and negotiations seeking to conclude a multi-year agreement between ACORN and a host of subsidiaries and businesses that compose Citcorp Group, the worldwide banking behemoth.   In this meeting a staff centered negotiating team head by Mike Shea for ACORN, …