New Orleans We are now ten (10) weeks past the hurricane. Progress in the restoration of the city though can only be measured in baby steps. At least half of the city still has no water and power throughout mid-city, the east, the 9th ward, the 8th ward, Lakeview, and Gentilly. This weekend more people were …
Month: November 2005
Wildcat
Los Angeles My day started early in New Orleans looking at houses in the 1200 block of Desire Street, a couple of blocks from St. Claude. Not much water, but there had been one roof after another blown to smithereens. Shortly afterwards three young fellows from Common Ground climbed up one of the roofs to try …
Mayor Math
New Orleans Max Allison, the political genius behind the almost forgotten, but still legendary, Congressman Wilbur Mills from Arkansas, used to talk about following “the equation.” The way that inputs of various kinds fit into the political calculus of running and winning. I found Bob Tucker, an equally legendary political operator in New Orleans, yesterday in …