New Orleans Follow me on where I’m going with this. In the smaller-footprint, post-Katrina New Orleans, I do my citizen’s duty and am part of the jury pool every two years, and this May is my month to report for service. Yesterday in the pool as part of voir dire, I was asked, along with …
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The Green Footprint of Fairtrade Green Coffee Beans and the Port of New Orleans
New Orleans Consider these facts if you will: From Wikipedia: As the country’s major coffee-handling port, the Port of New Orleans has 14 warehouses covering over 51 hectares of storage space and six roasting facilities. Coffee Handled Here. New Orleans is the nation’s premier coffee-handling port, with 14 warehouses, more than 5.5 million feet of …
Democracy and Revenue: Where the New Orleans Autonomous Charter School Model Breaks Down
New Orleans New Orleans continues, past any notion of reality, to be touted as a model example of educational reform because of the huge number of charter schools, mostly run by separate and independent operators. There are many problems with this so-called model, but a huge, glaring deficiency has been the usurpation of any democratic, …