New Orleans We had a good, but troubling, meeting with organizers from Houston, Little Rock, Shreveport, New Orleans and elsewhere about how to proceed to lower the digital divide and access lower cost internet services, promised, but not delivered, by Comcast and other companies. By mid-February we will move forward to either involve the FCC more …
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Short Takes on the 1% and Other Weirdness in the Small World
New Orleans As we fight to regain population in the wake of Katrina and so many other demographic struggles over the last half-century, New Orleans in the NBA/NFL world is a “small market city,” which means we often find that we are living in a very small world. I thought of this recently while hanging …
Embracing Your Percentage
New Orleans The Times ran a story that tried to put a face on the 1% and encourage us to embrace our inner percentage. There are two ways to approach looking at these numbers around the country, and both perspectives can offer some insight to US political views. On the one hand it lends some vague …