The Long Tail of Payback on Harvard’s Investment in Coal Fired Electricity Production

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New Orleans   What goes around, comes around, even if forty-five years later. Hearing that food activists from Harvard University’s Philip Brooks House were interested in volunteering in New Orleans, triggered an immediate invitation from ACORN International for them to visit and help at the ACORN Farm in the Lower 9th Ward. Seven showed up on …

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Just When You Think It Can’t Get Worse, It Just Gets More Bizarre

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New Orleans   We’re living in bizarre times without easy explanations, making it hard not to start drawing straight lines in our mind about things that might normally have seemed simply examples of random events, but the examples abound. The legislature is meeting currently in Arkansas for instance. News reports indicated that there was a difficulty …

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Hillary, Lifeline, ACORN, and Me

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New Orleans  Everybody has their own reasons for being excited that this election is almost over. Mine are much the same with one difference: I’m tired of telling the story of Hillary Clinton’s role in opposing ACORN’s initiative election victory establishing “lifeline” electricity rates in Little Rock in 1976. Every time Hillary runs for national …

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