Willis: It’s time for business and civic leaders to step up
Archie Willis
Arche Willis III is the president of ComCap Partners, a firm involved with real estate and affordable housing development which also provides municipal financial advisory services to local government.
Those who are hardest hit do not have the power or resources to change the economic, educational, health care and criminal justice systems. Even our democracy, which should have the potential to be an equalizer, is fundamentally broken and in many cases, morally bankrupt.
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