Quepos It’s probably always true to a huge degree in the New Yorker eye view of the world, but it was even more stark reading the current issue on the plane that was ostensibly about efforts to impact environments. The “world changers” as the magazine labeled them were all stereotypically weird, outsider, loner white dudes. …
Category: Personal Writings
With Banks, Speak Softly and Carry No Stick
New Orleans On the front page of the papers today there is more drumbeating about the President having yet another meeting with the nation’s top bankers to jawbone them to finally start making loans to small businesses and homeowners. At this point it is hard to even call this jawboning. It’s more like gumming them. …
Eloise Cobell Settles the Indian Trust Lands Suit
New Orleans After 13 long years in court and even more years in negotiations trying to get the United States Interior Department to do right and make restitution for their shameful mismanagement of Indian Trust lands and the royalties that should have been paid, Elouise Cobell finally settled the case for $3.4 billion dollars this …