New Orleans Senator Hillary Clinton announced an upgrade to her anti-foreclosure plan. A quote running on the McClatchy newspapers wire and picked up in the Washington Post, Denver Post, and other papers from Bruce Dorpalen stated fairly: Bruce Dorpalen, director of housing counseling at ACORN Housing, a nonprofit mortgage counselor, welcomed Clinton’s proposals but …
Month: March 2008
Slum Tours
New Orleans You would be surprised how often we debate the issues that revolve around “slum tourism” as these events have come to be called. Most acknowledge the role of the favela tours in Rio de Janeiro in developing the notion that there might be value in taking tourists to see poverty. It …
Odds and Ends
New Orleans Here are a couple of notes of interest…. *** Calvin Trillin writing in the current National Geographic reports on rickshaw pullers in Kolkata. Contrary to what I have reported over the years based on organizing and public reports along with conversations in that great Indian city, the practice of having humans labor …