New Orleans My bad! I called it way wrong. After the New York legislative session where under the influence of a Democratic majority and progressive forces, major breakthroughs occurred, especially around expanding rent control access to cities around the state and closing landlord loopholes that had existed for decades, I interpreted the progress as having …
Random Insights into Membership Loyalty and Leadership Development
New Orleans Milan was interesting, but Geneva, Switzerland, was an unexpected surprise. What we had thought was simply a waystation, a place to repack before flying out of the airport there, chosen solely on the advice of ACORN’s French affiliate that it might offer a cheaper roundtrip flight than Paris, turned out to be …
TV Time at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse
Geneva An email whizzed in from the interweb on a Tuesday. A location scout wanted to know, “Would we be willing to shut down the coffeehouse on Thursday for filming of a television series?” The subject line on the email spelled proposal as “propussal.” I was suspicious. This might be spam. Something called Purge II …