New Orleans You know it’s bad when hope comes in tiny capsules of news that some of the more horrific proposals by the President-elect like waterboarding will be harder to resuscitate than the Twitterman-in-Chief might have thought. You know it’s bad when you found yourself momentarily rooting for George Romney for Secretary of State so …
Sanctuary Cities and Counties Gearing Up for Anti-Deportation Fight
New Orleans Big cities with large immigrant populations are stepping up and shouting loudly towards Washington that they will refuse to be attack dogs for any new administration initiatives to forcibly deport undocumented workers and families from their jurisdictions. According to an estimate from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, an advocacy and legal assistance group …
Realtors and Redlining Destroyed Neighborhoods – Was Alinsky a No-Show?
New Orleans Looking into the rising return of the family crushing and neighborhood killing predation involved in contract-for-deed property transactions being revived by Wall Street veterans and facilitated by weak regulations and federal off-loading of foreclosure inventory from the real estate bubble of 2008, I stumbled onto an interesting book, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate and …