Indianapolis Scott Hagy, who readers will remember rolled in from Wyoming to save the day at our offices and houses, has now jumped into the big time. By helping our next door neighbor, Monique, who runs the bed and breakfast from afar (Brooklyn!), he found himself not only with a place to stay in the …
Month: October 2005
Why did the Levee’s Break in New Orleans
Indianapolis In Boston the other day, Brother Mike Gallagher and I were talking about the lessons we had learned reading John M. Barry’s great book, “Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America.” Barry gave the inside story on how the city worked then, how the levees were blasted to flood …
Go Way, Ray!
Indianapolis In Chicago a week ago speaking to the SEIU Public Sector Division Leadership Assembly, then on Saturday to the ACORN Field Operations Meeting in Nashville, and again at the Progressive Strategy Seminar in Boston, I have been clearer and clearer — Mayor Ray Nagin is destroying New Orleans as effectively as Katrina tried to do. …