New Orleans For all New Orleans families of this generation there will forever become a time marker that draws the line at “before Katrina” and “after Katrina.” Life with my father follows that line as well in some interesting ways. He and my mother ended up after many twists and turns in …
Category: Personal Writings
Attorney General and Foreclosures
New Orleans As I stepped off the plane from Washington the news was running in the concourse and WWL at Channel 4 was airing a large segment with Louisiana ACORN announcing that Buddy Caldwell, the newly elected Attorney General here, had just been graded an F on a survey and report card released nationally on …
Winking at Wal-Mart
Washington On the eve of the Wal-Mart annual meeting Michael Barbaro, the retail reporter for the Times, ran a piece that insinuated that Wal-Mart opponents were unilaterally disarming in their fight against Wal-Mart. I’ve gotten emails and calls from everywhere the upshot of which was: tell us there is no way this is true? …