New Orleans The other day brainstorming with Rick Smith, Ben, Colin, Beth, and Hillary — the core of the whole WARN team in Florida — we found ourselves talking about the contradictory problem of outsized superstores that we have fought many places versus grocery “deserts” that also concern us when communities are isolated from …
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Hope for Reunification
Hope for Reunification January 8, 2009 St. Petersburg Getting on the plane to fly home, I ran into some old friends who were the principal officers of the International Longshoreman Association in New Orleans. They had been at a bargaining conference in Tampa preparing for upcoming negotiations. We talked about what happened to their …
Financial Meltdown Coherence
Financial Meltdown Coherence New Orleans Jim Lynch, my old friend and colleague from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Ernie Dumas, former editorial page editor for the Arkansas Gazette a million years ago, were early Saturday morning correspondents as they shared a story from The Weekly Standard on moral hazard. What struck …