New Orleans For decades the ACORN headquarters has been somewhere around the intersection of St. Claude Avenue and Elysian Fields Avenue. We were ten blocks from the Mississippi River for many years, and we are again. The old riddle used to be, “What street has its head in the river and its feet in the …
Republicans May Capture the Court, but Lose a Generation of Women & Religious
New Orleans It’s appalling to read almost anything about Judge Kavanagh and the relentless, tone deaf efforts of the Republican majority in the Senate to push through his nomination. Even as hearings loom and his victim negotiates to come forward, there is a tragic sense of inevitability shrouding this nomination that now reduces the country …
DC Dilemma: Fair Votes and Fair Pay versus Tip Subsidies for Owners
New Orleans New Orleans is a service worker, hospitality industry city, as are an increasing number of other areas in the United States. Tips are always an issue when so much of the workers’ income depends on them, especially when employers pay the federal minimum wage for tipped workers of $2.13 per hour versus the …