New Orleans Finally, the big-time money transfer organizations and the gazillions in predatory profits for moving money for migrant workers and immigrant families are at least hearing our footprints coming after them in the distance. Several months ago Ontario NDP Member of Parliament Jagmeet Singh introduced a bill we had collaborated in writing under the …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Hurricane Hoopla!
New Orleans What’s the right thing to do when a hurricane enters the Gulf of Mexico? The truth seems to be that no one really knows. On Sunday afternoon the storm looked to be a category 2 (of 5) headed between the Florida panhandle around Panama City and Pascagoula, Mississippi, a couple of hundred miles …
FCC Notes Broadband Failures While Still Snubbing Digital Divide
New Orleans FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski released the annual report on broadband internet access this week in Washington, DC, bemoaning the fact that the United States is still not among the leaders in broadband speed and that 19,000,000 do not have access. The FCC thinks this is mainly a rural problem, and god knows, having just …