Getting the Lead Out

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      We have to take progress where we can get it in these dark days at perhaps the tail end of the Trump administration.  There are scores of last-minute aberrations from muscling an appointment to the Supreme Court to further eroding labor law protections that are …

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Cruel and Usual Punishment for Prisoners

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09262020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River      Just when you might think things can’t get any worse, it turns out you don’t know half of it.  At least, that’s how I felt visiting with Professor Nick Zaller on Wade’s World.  Zaller is a well-regarded and oft-cited researcher and professor of public …

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SEC Makes Shareholder “Democracy” Just for the Big Boys

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09242020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Little Rock      Corporate chieftains’ claims that there is even such a thing as shareholder democracy has always been akin to an edict pronounced at a North Korean military parade to the assembled masses.  The notion that the little shareholder has a voice in corporate governance is …

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