New Orleans There was Ferguson and protests erupted around similar outrages, and the notion of a building movement seemed local and directed mainly at police practices and profiling. The President picked up the challenge and looked at decriminalizing some drug beefs and taking steps for early release in Federal prison facilities. Black Lives Matter seemed …
On the Scene Report on the Myanmar Election
New Orleans Today I’m sharing an on-the-ground report of the Election Day excitement from Yangon, Myanmar of the first democratically conducted election in more than twenty-five years. The report is from Mike Orders, a recently retired business representative from the British Columbia Government Employees Union in Vancouver, who served as an election observer there in …
Affordable Care is Simply Not Affordable
New Orleans The more studies that are done, the more time that passes, the more it seems impossible to get around the core issue embedded in the compromises of the Affordable Care Act: it’s just not affordable for lower income families. The government’s projections for the current signup period are frankly modest at about nine …