On the Road: Time never stands still, and as our children have gotten older we have found the only way to really get time with them in all of our hurried lives is to spirit them out of town. And, it works. Sure, the first year or so there were complaints about friends missed as well …
Category: Personal Writings
Sun Mountain
Fresno: I took a detour this week between meetings in Washington, DC, and San Francisco to stop in Fresno, California in the midpoint of the state, and get a lift 45 minutes out of town into the foothills to look at an operation called Sun Mountain (http://www.sunmt.org/). I first met George Ballis a couple of decades …
Pay Day Lending in Canada
Toronto: Four months ago Jude Duncan, ACORN Canada’s Toronto Head Organizer, and John Young, ACORN Canada’s executive director were driving endless miles around the neighborhoods of what is called the GTA — Greater Toronto Area — looking at the turf for countless areas that would become ACORN local community organizations in the coming years. Now, I …