Asuncion, Paraguay Be still my heart! It is probably a distant dream, but is it just possible that that the philanthropic tax dodges of massive tax evasion and, even more abhorrent, the impunity of the rich and their patronizing rationale that they know better and are “solving our problems” is finally being called to account? …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Process of Gutting the Community Reinvestment Act Gains Steam
Little Rock Any time the head of the American Bankers Association says that it’s a good thing that any part of the government is looking at rewriting and revising the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, known popularly as the CRA, it’s very bad news for lower-income and racially diverse communities. Sad, but true, that’s exactly the …
Coal and the Value of Human Life
New Orleans Reading about the emerging push to ease pollution controls on coal burning by the now ill-named Environmental Protection Agency which is proposing to in fact not protect the public is profoundly disturbing. The proposal from the former coal and energy lobbyist now directing the EPA is going to be something between turning any …