New Orleans It was just another day for my mother, but it was her birthday, and she was now 92 years’ old, and that’s quite something in itself. Several times during the week before she had asked me if her mother was still alive, and I would explain that she had died forty years earlier. …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Hell of a Highway, Highway to Hell: I-30 and I-630
Little Rock Every once in a while some self-delusion seeps in, no matter how hard you try to prevent it. A couple years ago the Arkansas Times wrote a cover story that essentially was a 35-year later vindication of the huge battles ACORN had fought and led in Little Rock to try to block and …
Brits and Texans Agree – Attack Unions Where it Hurts – Dues Collection
New Orleans Conservatives of all stripes and nationalities seem to have settled on a killer app for delivering a death blow to unions: block the dues collection mechanism! Short memories will recall that earlier this year there were fierce legislative battles in Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere whose sole objective was to eliminate the ability …