So, it’s been an eventful two days. HRC wins the exact same amount of delegates from FL as Dennis Kucinich. John Sidney McCain and Charlie Crist beat back Romney and the Bush machine in FL.
And most importantly, John Edwards exits the race.
All of these things would merit long posts and short posts on their own, but I have a job, so I’ll have to combine my take on all these things into one gigantic post and hope to do justice to the topics at hand.
Read on. […]
In case there were any people left who were not sure about the racist and class objectives of the Republican Party, I think this should clear up any more doubt. The state of Mississippi and its Republican Governor Haley Barbour has decided to take money earmarked for rebuilding the Gulf Coast region which was damaged by Katrina and use it to provide relief and redevelopment money for the wealthy at the expense of the poor. Mississippi was the only state that requested and the only state granted the waiver to override the provision that atleast 50% of the Community Block Grants be spent on low income projects. In creating the program Congress wanted to insure that the low income population in the affected states would not be left out of the redevelopment funds.
I have been re-reading a book by Curtis Wilkie called Dixie. I took it back off the shelf because I was thinking about going to the Alabama-Ole Miss game over in Oxford this weekend (having never seen firsthand this spectacle known as “The Grove.” The book is pretty great, especially handling the recent history of […]
So while we’re on the subject of Alabama and progressive grassroots activities, I thought I would simultaneously give a shout out to a group that appears to be doing extremely important work while also posing a question to the masses.
First, there’s a group called Alabama Arise. I don’t know a lot about them, but they […]
So Tuscaloosa schools are crowded. Packing the little scholars into classrooms like cattle into a Kansas feedlot. Some white parents complained. The solution? Ship some black students from semi-diverse schools out to non-diverse, nearly-all-black low-performing schools.
School authorities here in lovely Tuscaloosa have been accused of catering to the white families by responding to overcrowding with […]
There’s considerable talk about the new Supreme Court term, and not just amid the geeky law school set and jurisprudential groupies. There’s all sorts of buzz about the spicy (read: cranky) new Clarence Thomas autobiography and plenty of talk about the cases that the Court will be hearing. But it’s also worth taking a look […]
Hello readers. My name is Stephen Stetson and I’ll be guest blogging here for two weeks. I’d like to thank Dheeraj for the opportunity and the wildly generous introduction posted earlier. I’ll try to live up to such a lofty intro. And now, the first post. I chose to write about the University of Alabama […]
Two years later. What has happened? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I’m not sure what to think. […]
For years, New Orleans and Louisiana have had reputations as centers of political corruption. Former Gov. Edwin Edwards is serving 10 years in prison after being convicted in 2000 in a fraud, extortion and racketeering case. Within the past week, a former New Orleans school board president pleaded guilty to taking bribes to help a business consultant win contracts for an employer, and a one-time associate of former Mayor Marc Morial was sentenced to prison for his role in a kickback scandal.
Historically, the city and state have been tolerant of corruption, Letten said. Still, he and Rafael Goyeneche, president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, believe that tolerance is eroding, particularly in the nearly 22 months since Katrina flooded much of the city.
Time is supposed to heal all wounds or so they say. It has been 22 months since the disaster known as hurricane Katrina; hit the city of New Orleans. While there has been significant progress in the city as a whole, the 9th ward has not been as fortunate as the rest of the city. For those who are not familiar the 9th ward is where the majority of the poor people of New Orleans resided. I originally wanted to do a piece to respond to a challenge on a blog site, asking if the Black bloggers had forgotten about New Orleans. I had to admit that I had not done one post on it and it kind of bothered me. I was ready to do a post blasting the incompetence of the federal, state, and local governments and how the well documented history of corruption in Louisiana was playing out on the national stage.
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