by admin | Mar 4, 2011 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Photo by SEAMO – SEAMONSTERThe “natural” consequence of drastically cutting state budgets, drastically cutting federal support to cities, and then drastically cutting the ability of cities and towns to raise taxes themselves, is simple. Although the...
by admin | Jan 25, 2011 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama
Photo by Steve RhodesIn advance of tonight’s State of the Union address, Michael Shear notes that Obama is strategically using the language of business in order to show he is business friendly but in such a way as to maintain constituency support. Shear:...
by admin | Jan 18, 2011 | Black Leadership, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama |
Photo by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.comAnd that sound you hear is the sound of balloons busting all over the country. Today, Obama penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that promised an executive order that would make sure that pre-existing and new regulations...
by admin | Jan 5, 2010 | Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
Today the NYT ran a story reporting Harlem was no longer majority black. This news is important enough to cover…and particularly interesting given the fact that New York City is no longer majority white. But the reality is that the Harlem we carry in our head?...
by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Education, Neoliberalism, Obama |
Over the summer the White House cut their funding to HBCUs $85 million. While they argued in response that they’ve indirectly increased aid to HBCUs alumni and concerned citizens are up in arms. Earlier today I had a discussion with a friend who detailed to me a...
by admin | Jul 24, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Crime and Punishment, Education |
…isn’t that a black Harvard professor was arrested by police. The real story–one that you won’t see on Anderson Cooper 360–is that Harvard is going broke. (Thanks Farai for dropping it on me.) Quick college finance 101–colleges and...
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