New Orleans Life, work, and the world are full of mysteries, but after years of hitting my head against various walls, I’m finally connecting the dots in trying to understand the peculiar responses we sometimes get in trying to change public policies and private pricing strategies. Remittances are a prime example. Talking last week to …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Are “Gifted” Classes a Discriminatory Gift Themselves?
New Orleans The financial crisis gripping the state government of Louisiana due to the oil pricing collapse and the ideological bondage of former Governor Bobby Jindal to the worst of Republican “no tax/ small government” philosophy, has forced an interesting conflict over the funding of special gifted programs in New Orleans schools. The few lucky …
Democratic Elite Ignoring Voters – We Need an Exit Strategy
New Orleans Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has now taken 16 states while Clinton has taken 20, including what would normally in politics be called a landslide in Wisconsin by 56.5 to 43.2 besting Hillary Clinton in all but a couple of counties in the state. Everyone who is anyone seems to know that Sanders campaign …