Vancouver The World Urban Forum is a biennial affair put together by UN-Habitat to look the issue raised by cities and the continued concentration of the world’s population in urban areas and the massive issues that follow. They talk about these problems at least, and we will have to see if they do anything about …
Month: June 2006
Big Labor and Big Dollars
New Orleans John Sweeney was in town again. Last time he was here he told me the investment funds were going to commit one billion big bucks to the recovery. The number sweated down over the last 4-5 weeks to $700 million by the time his picture was in front of the business page with …
Gloria Goodbye
Washington I met Gloria Wilson in the usual way almost 36 years ago. I knocked on her door. I was going down a street of small bungalow houses in Little Rock’s South End neighborhood. Standing and looking to the east one could see and hear the expressway and the access road 100 feet away. Looking …