New Orleans Given Houston’s experiences with its own flooding and hurricanes and its welcoming and sheltering of thousands after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it would have seemed safe to assume that if any city could respond well to disaster, it must be Houston. A year after Hurricane Harvey, the answer is clear: not Houston …
Tag: Trump Administration
Grifter, Fixer and the Boss
New Orleans It was a news explosion on every possible platform: radio, television, and print. It’s a wonder it didn’t “break” the internet, as the saying goes. Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for President Trump, was found guilty in court of eight charges involving all manner of tax, bank and other fraud. At almost …
Making “Welfare” a Curse Word, No Matter How Many Benefit
Kawakawa, New Zealand Many years ago, we organized tens of thousands of people to demand welfare “rights,” but amazingly to me, the right has managed to usurp a fundamental entitlement by promoting welfare “wrongs.” The New York Times had a depressing piece on how this tide turned based on an examination of recent work done …