New Orleans Funny how some issues, even very big ones, linger right off your radar and then seem to pop up everywhere. Recently, I’ve felt that way about “land grabbing.” Working mostly in cities and slums around the world, out of sight is too often out of mind. Meeting in France with ReAct, our international …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Life as a Soft Target
New Orleans In the age of global and domestic terrorism we all now have a new identity. We’re soft targets. Hard targets have guards, gates, barriers, and buildings. The rest of us are out in the open, on the street, in our offices, at our cafes and coffeehouses, doing work, living life: soft targets. Mi …
Crony Capitalism and the Logrolling Culture
New Orleans Logrolling is such a nice, archaic American expression that, excuse the pun, it just sort of rolls off of your tongue. Wikipedia looks at the expression as a mutual back scratch: Logrolling is the trading of favors, or quid pro quo, such as vote trading by legislative members to obtain passage of …