Detroit        ACORN’s Convention is getting ready to roll into Detroit.  Not surprisingly a huge focus of this meeting is going to be threat of foreclosure and the credit squeezes everyone for our members now.  Since Detroit, the state of Michigan, and the general Midwest are ground zero for some of these problems, the ACORN …

New Orleans        The July-August issue of The Atlantic featured an article by Hanna Rosin entitled:  “Why Crime is Coming Back — and Why No One Wants to Talk about it.”  The article itself is less inflammatory than the headline, but the underlying thesis of the piece probes the question of whether or not tearing …