Toronto I listened carefully to the ACORN Canada board meeting as the leaders from Vancouver, Toronto, and now Ottawa, reported on the progress in their local chapters and cities. For example, a long campaign to deal with payday lenders that has been the signature effort for ACORN in Canada seems to be finally falling …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Alvar Library Saga
New Orleans In the painful rebuilding of New Orleans we have discussed the exhilarating and depressing saga of the Alvar Street Library in the Bywater neighborhood of the city several times. As faithful readers recall, it was re-opened with great fanfare as a project of the American Library Association at their convention this summer. It …
Distribution?
Tampa We spent the day speculating and probing, trying to figure out the weaknesses — the chinks in the armor — in Wal-Mart’s vaunted distribution network. Our crack team of WARN Tampa based research team of Colin, Hillary, and Skylar kibitzed and griped with Rick Smith and me until light gradually started to emerge from …