New Orleans It’s a small sample, but the Virginia bellwether and the deeply blue state New Jersey went hard Republican and in Jersey tossed a Democratic governor looking for a second shot. Across the river, New York City voters surprised the chattering political classes by almost moving Mayor Bloomberg to his next career as a …
Working Sick
New Orleans Interesting piece in the Times today by Steven Greenhouse pointing out the obvious: our national inability to provide paid sick days jeopardizes the health of our entire population and puts American citizens at risk of pandemics. Corporate America seems to be tripping over its communications message everywhere they turn. They don’t want dilute …
Boosting Employement of Indian Rural Poor
New Orleans Using the weekend to catch up on old papers, magazines, and whatever, allowed me to stumble on some head scratchers. Newsweek has a new format in order to try and survive as a news-based magazine in the cutthroat environment of the internet and the 24-hour news cycle. Sometimes they try to stir the …