Little Rock We continue to struggle with cable companies promising to offer affordable digital access to lower income families. Comcast, Cox, Time-Warner, and others promise, while failing to deliver in any meaningful way. The FCC claims to be engaged in the fight with us, but lumbers along ineffectively. Ironically, when the recent FCC chairman stepped …
Tag: Eduardo Porter
Union Conundrum: Short Term Needs versus Long Term Success
New Orleans Eduardo Porter’s “Economic Scene” column in the New York Times is fast becoming a favorite read for me. He actually seems to care about people, including working and low income people. Probably not long for this world at the paper, but worth showing some love. In today’s column he looked at the deterioration …
Saving Money, Lives, and Mexico by Raising the White Flag in the Drug War
New Orleans Sitting in the jury pool in Orleans Parish Criminal Court and watching each case tainted by a touch with drugs and the huge waste of police and court resources and being force to think for hours at a time about exactly what I thought about the huge divisions and lack of security in the …