Dallas In the grocery and retail business there is a constantly shifting question about what is enough and what is too much when it comes to Wal-Mart. While I was in Dallas for some meetings, I read the end of a front page two-part series in the Dallas Morning News (part 2, part 1) about the …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Wal-Mart Don’t Like Ugly!
Baton Rouge Wal-Mart had been on a charm offensive since Hurricane Katrina trying to prove to an increasingly doubtful public that it was about something more than cutting prices and pinching pennies at the expense of its workers. Over the last week they have been trying to weather a firestorm initiated by the release of an …
Why did the Levee’s Break in New Orleans
Indianapolis In Boston the other day, Brother Mike Gallagher and I were talking about the lessons we had learned reading John M. Barry’s great book, “Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America.” Barry gave the inside story on how the city worked then, how the levees were blasted to flood …