New Orleans The Interfaith Workers’ Justice network was having a summit at Tulane University in New Orleans and its director, Kim Bobo, and communications guy, Danny Postel, invited us to come down for the plenary Saturday night. The summit had included a number of worker center and day labor activists and old friends like Jim …
Category: Personal Writings
Marsh before Hurricane Season
Slidell My son and I are hardly scientists, but we know something about the marsh and bayous between Lake Pontchartrain and the West Pearl River. Until Katrina we had a fishing camp on two acres a mile or so as a crow would fly from the Lake. Now we have two acres of mainly marsh …
Election Goes Digital in Honolulu
Ocean Springs A neighborhood commission saved $100,000 by allowing for encrypted voting for a neighborhood board election in Honolulu. The voting was from homes and offices. All reports indicated smooth sailing. Laws there forbid anything less than eyeball to eyeball identification in city and state elections. Change is coming though despite the high walls of the …