New Orleans I’m not an Uber-fan. Cabdrivers have a rough road to travel and city regulations protect their safety and the passengers, so what Uber calls “disruption,” looks a lot like another corporate scam on workers and their communities. On the other hand, I’m no fool. And, when it looked impossible to catch a cab …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Uneven Results in North Carolina Indicate that New Nonprofit Hospital Rule Might Work
New Orleans A combination of factors has curbed some, but not all, of the appetite for nonprofit hospitals’ frenzy of legal actions against lower income families in North Carolina, giving hope that the new Affordable Care Act restrictions against draconian collection practices might actually be effective. We have been following closely whether or not nonprofit …
Coal Projects Busting Globally
New York City Some of the more interesting reports at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) training and finance conference were from some of the activist global trackers of the coal industry. Here’s the short summary: the coal dudes are going down! Christine Shearer of the Sierra Club’s Coalswarm Project laid out …