New Orleans These are the dog days. Walking the dog or loading the car means a full-on sweat. A cold shower is delayed until minutes before the dash to work. Unsurprisingly, fingers find themselves checking temperature listings in Wyoming and Ontario. Just saying. Meanwhile the tasks of the day can’t be avoided or delayed any …
Tag: property taxes
Using Local Property Taxes to Push Hospitals on Charity Care
New Orleans John Bouman, the President of the Sargent Shriver Poverty Law Center based in Chicago was my guest on Wade’s World recently on KABF/FM talking about a number of subjects but especially the handles for pushing nonprofit hospitals to provide care for lower income families as part of their nonprofit status and especially their federal …
Soft Case for Home Ownership: Forced Savings/Low Interest Rates
New Orleans Dueling columns in the Times smashed the drunken or doped spin of the Realtors Association trying to claim that the housing market was “back” and in the “Your Money” section made a soft and shrugging case for home ownership: “Indeed, many people who are buying at the moment are locking in mortgage …