New Orleans I’m not much of a consumer. My truck is over a dozen years old. My house is many times older and the mortgage is paid. I only replace my running shoes every couple of years and my boots every three years. But I’ve always bought books for work, for pleasure, and for part …
Category: Ideas and Issues
For the Rich Results are Bah Humbug
New Orleans I was fascinated by an article in today’s Times about something called Charity Navigator, which would like to influence the way donors give by herding them into a “financial” or “strictly business” evaluation process. The piece was about their attempt to retool “…to add evaluations of a nonprofit’s accountability and transparency to its …
Hunger Strike for DREAM Act on Thanksgiving
New Orleans The DREAM Act is bumping and stumbling its way to a vote in the Senate to the quack of the lame ducks and the politics of desperation, but once again young people are showing muscle and grit to lead this movement. For the last two weeks more than a dozen students at the …