New Orleans At the board meeting of the Organizers’ Forum, which returned to New Orleans after a year’s hiatus because of the storm, we were looking at the 2006 elections and their meaning and what might be unfolding over the coming several years. The facts, figures and insights were flying furiously! Daniel Gotoff, the senior researcher, …
Month: December 2006
Small World?
New Orleans Kenneth Wade, CEO of NeighborWorks, the Congressionally funded housing support program, had called out of the blue and invited me to breakfast to talk about ways that we could work together. When we said down, Kenneth said that before we started he wanted to mention that there were a couple of things that …
Marking Recovery Time
New Orleans I have shared the saga of our neighborhood library and its struggling efforts to comeback with help from many friends. Faithful readers will remember we (me and my son) tried to help out by going over on odd weekends and trying to mow the grass, but this plan, which started out so well, …