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. …
Category: Personal Writings
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 …
Nick Von Hoffman on Alinsky
New Orleans Driving back from a union bargaining session at the NASA Michoud facility I just missed a call from a 207 area code. Returning the call, it was a pleasant surprise to find the caller was none other than Nicholas von Hoffman, who is somewhat known to people now for his journalistic and broadcasting …