The Permanent Partnership of War and Media

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10142019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        An interesting conversation with University of Houston professor, author, and poet, Roberto Tejada, on Wade’s World, about his new book, Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness, got me thinking a lot about the fact that the manipulation of media of all kinds is anything …

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Bullying Low-and-Moderate Income Homeowners with Paperwork and Fines

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10112019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      I thought of an article I had torn out of the New York Times and stuck into my bag to read more closely on my quick trip to Katmandu recently, when I got a weird email on the same trip.  The Historic Districts Landmarks …

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Constitutional Crisis or Tactical Stalemate?

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10092019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      The latest gambit by the Trump White House is to simply refuse to cooperate with any investigation by the House committees tasked with the job. The lawyers for Trump make the specious claim that no investigation is legitimate without an actual vote on impeachment, …

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