February 3, 2009 New Orleans A raging front page story in the local papers as well as even the New York Times has been focusing on a showdown between May Ray Nagin and the City Council over the price and provision of sanitation services, particularly what they are all calling “Disney-type” services in …
Category: Labor Organizing
Punishing the Poor
February 2, 2009 New Orleans The often coercive and restrictive control that states are now exercising over the TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families) monies that replaced the old welfare system during the Clinton Administration finally got some much deserved criticism, through it was buried, in Jason DeParle’s story on the front page of …
Doug Allen and SAG
New Orleans Other than on some kind of screen, silver, LED, computer, TV or whatever, I probably would not know a screen actor if one bit me, so I’m probably not qualified to comment on the internal squabbles within the Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG) and their termination of Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Doug …