Baton Rouge Today (Monday) we will open up the ACORN Community Forum on Rebuilding New Orleans at the LSU Cook Conference Center. Within weeks of the hurricane we started reaching out to our friends and allies in the planning and architectural worlds with the hard questions — how do we rebuild New Orleans. Some of them …
Month: November 2005
Princely
New Orleans I worked in New Orleans while hunting for candidates to run for Mayor of New Orleans on Friday. Running in the morning at dawn on a workday was still eerie. It was all country quiet surrounding an urban facade. I passed two trucks contracted to FEMA loaded with the dead tombstone refrigerators a block …
Pause for Prayers
Shreveport Here’s one for the record books. We were bargaining a Local 100 contract in Shreveport yesterday afternoon, so I drove up from Baton Rouge to the session. The lawyer for the company started the session with a prayer. This sentiment was much appreciated by everyone because it wished for harmony and success for both sides …