New Orleans In the wake of NRA executive vice-president, Wayne LaPierre’s crazed Washington, DC press conference yesterday where he called for armed guns guarding schools across the country and said that the “only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” a number of states are moving …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Exploiting Interns for Profit and Not
New Orleans Turns out that Charlie Rose, the TV personality on PBS, was one of many outfits that used unpaid interns in place of wage-based staff to do the basics in putting together his TV show from research to guest codling to whatever. He stands out now only because he got caught. Steven Greenhouse reports …
Is Manufacturing Coming Back to the USA?
New Orleans Sometimes it is hard to determine whether something is really a trend or just more spin, but either way the spike of interest in manufacturing (i.e. jobs!) coming back to the USA is worth close attention. Perhaps the evidence is circumstantial, but it’s physical and some of it means serious numbers of jobs, …