New Orleans My mother was a live wire. She could light up a room like a glowing bulb, but if you didn’t make the connection right, she could singe your fingers. One minute she had all the charm, grace, and manners of the old south, and the next minute, if you weren’t on your toes, …
Big Hope for Small Donors
New Orleans Money in politics, boo! For years under the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision money has flooded into politics like water, as the superrich, corporations, and others try to buy their way through an ostensibly democratic system. Billionaires and bigtime millionaires, whether Trump or Daddy Starbucks or Bloomberg on the national level or …
Good News for Mexican Workers on the Other Side of the Wall
New Orleans How about some good news for a change? Yes, I’m with you. I found some in a surprising place on the other side of the proposed wall between Mexico and the Untied States and in all places in Matamoros, right across the river from Brownsville, Texas. If you’ve ever been to Matamoros, you …