New Orleans In the United States, from place to place, Thanksgiving comes with its own set of traditions enhanced by families and friends. One of my first Thanksgivings away from home while on my brief on and off collegiate tour, the details are now lost in the fog of memory, but somehow I ended …
What Goes Around, Comes Around, Even for Presidents like Wilson
New Orleans A saying with common currency in recent years has been, “haters gonna hate.” An old one that seems almost timeless from the later part of the last century is, “what goes around, comes around.” As a matter of long standing record, I’m rooting for campus protestors these days on the issues of race and …
Redefining Employment Status Is Just Exploitation by Another Name
New Orleans Tech lobbyists, led by Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are now spending almost as much as the automobile industry on Washington, DC lobbyists. That’s not good news for the rest of us. A lot of the lobbying, according to recent reports, at both the federal, state, and local level is from Uber and the …