New Orleans Former Senator George Mitchell’s report was crawling across the screen as we toasted the end of an interesting labor retreat before the Year End meeting. The morning papers were full of the reports of various juicing that major league baseball players had reportedly used to stay in the game at the top of …
Category: Personal Writings
Changes
New Orleans The first arrivals of the annual Year End / Year Begin meeting that are held by the ACORN family of organizations began yesterday. Many more will be coming in today and the last arrivals will roll in on Friday morning before the opening gun sounds for the meeting. Years ago old timers …
No Place to Go
Shreveport Shreveport is not a small town. There are over 200,000 who live in the city and once you look at the metropolitan area and the entire AR/LA/TX area there are a lot of people here. There is some manufacturing; there are casinos, a fair amount of warehousing along the I-20 corridor, and service industries …