Ottawa Being in Ottawa is a welcome back to the Rideau Canal and the Elgin Diner, but this time we have an office in Vanier, where Jill O’Reilly, ACORN Canada’s office director, needs to be able to move easily between English and French on the phone as she talks to our members. The members …
Month: August 2008
Hard Fall
Ottawa There are some times when it seems there is nothing one can really say that seems right exactly, and the sudden, terrible and hard fall of former Senator, Vice-Presidential candidate, and more recently Presidential candidate, John Edwards, seems just such a situation. Walking through the building in the few days I was in …
Gutting Graft
New Orleans A lot of big hooey in the New Orleans and New York papers about the home gutting “scandal” administered by NOAH — New Orleans Affordable Housing — and its director along with their connections to the Mayor, his relatives, and the lining of their own pockets. The essence of the “scandal” in …