January 27, 2021 New Orleans The inauguration was hardly a week ago, and the honeymoon is already over. Ok, you’re right. There was absolutely no honeymoon ever! Who is surprised? Probably no one. Maybe Ol’ Joe, but I even doubt that. I was talking to a friend in San Francisco yesterday while waiting to …
Susie Thomas, the Rock of Pine Bluff
January 26, 2021 New Orleans When ACORN began in Little Rock, the next city where we organized was Pine Bluff in 1971, a river and mill town about 50 miles down the Arkansas River. The first organizer there was Herman Davenport, who I had poached from the Pulaski County Legal Aid …
Standardizing Federal Elections
January 25, 2021 New Orleans Given the chaos over the recent federal election still a fresh memory for many and an open sore for others still questioning its legitimacy, one early test of resolve in strengthening US democracy, is a bill to standardize more of the elements of federal elections. Reviving the so-called …