Mumbai Thanksgiving November 27, 2008 New Orleans In the late afternoon before Thanksgiving Prachee Sinha of the ACORN International staff and I were riveted to the Times of India website for news of the terrorist attacks throughout Mumbai. Prachee was raised in Luchow and came over to work with me from Delhi, first training …
Category: International
Brookings, Cuba, Drugs, and Immigration
Brookings, Cuba, Drugs, and Immigration November 25, 2008 New Orleans Sometimes I find surprises in very unlikely places and in this case it was in a recently released Brookings Institute report called, “Rethinking U.S.-Latin American Relationships: A Hemispheric Partnership for a Troubled World.” The report was as mainline as I could imagine and produced …
Mayor Robertson
Mayor Robertson Vancouver This is an election season that has broken out way, and we were delighted to all be among the swelling crowd in the ballroom of the Hotel Vancouver on Georgia Street to watch the election returns come in for Gregor Robertson and the Vision slate of candidates. Interestingly, in Vancouver and …