New Orleans Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Clinton was quoted in the Sunday New York Times arguing that the candidates should make a larger issue of the housing crises. We have to agree with that 100%! He makes the well-known point that 70% of the wealth of the middle-class voters are tied …
Category: Personal Writings
Picture of the year-2007
New Orleans This is my nomination for “picture of the year” for 2007. Just like my hero of the year from Panama, this is a picture of humanity manifesting itself past the structure of expectation and horror, and quite simply it moved me. The photographer was Rina Castelnuovo working for the New York …
Obama Rising
New Orleans Sometimes politics is not simply money and engineering, and in fact represents a movement of people that expresses itself in surprising and dramatic fashion. It is those times when we have to most carefully stop, look, and listen, and make sure we hear the train’s whistle clearly and either get on board …