New Orleans This is something I don’t want to get good at, but today we memorialized my brother, Dale, and for those interested, here were my remarks. My brother, Dale Rathke, was many things to many people. The “just the facts, ma’am” version found him born 64 years ago in Rangely, Colorado on the western …
Category: Ideas and Issues
An ACORN Memorial Orchard on the ACORN Farm
New Orleans Lady Bird Johnson gets a lot of credit for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove filled with a variety of trees along the Potomac River in Washington, D. C. There’s the AIDS Grove, a memorial to more than 1000 in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. More than a thousand redwood forest groves …
The FTC Mouse is Roaring and That’s a Good Thing!
New Orleans We’ve got Elizabeth Warren speaking up for consumers and the “little people” in the US Senate. We used to have Sheila Baird pushing back hard on the banks for some accountability. Maybe I’ve been missing this, but it seems like suddenly Edith Ramirez, the chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, has decided it’s …