New York For a long time Manhattan has been the capital of the “executive” city in the world. One reads about prices for one-bedroom condos here and there that match the price of vast rolling estates in other parts of the country. Not surprisingly the price of housing, for sale or for rent, has therefore …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Outsourcing Worker Power?
Shreveport The other day a small piece in The New York Times quoted Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, in an intriguing — and controversial — way under the title — “outsourcing the picket line” from a piece that ran in The McKinsey Quarterly. On the plus side he was quoted as …
Mardi Gras Gone, Garbage Here
New Orleans The garbage in front of our house has not been picked up in three (3) weeks. This is true throughout the city. There are lies in the paper every day from Waste Management, the city’s contractor, and city officials swearing that they are on it like “white on rice,” and it’ll happen this …