New Orleans Road Home, the famously slow to get started mess of a program whose ineptness cost Governor Kathleen Blanco any hope of re-election, now finds yet another pothole in the path of the recovery of the city. There is $800,000,000 of unspent funds in Road Home and given the national budgetary disaster, the House …
Month: July 2010
Homeland Security Double Speak in the Age of Terror
New Orleans My streak started in Canada in the fall, had my family sitting on floors in Houston coming back from Costa Rica for an hour, and pretty much became predictable when I was held up 8 of 9 times for “secondary security,” as I reentered the country. Having started another streak where I’m 4 …
Weird Times on Tax Exemptions for Israeli Settlements
New Orleans I was in Mexico City reading the Times on-line and, frankly, didn’t trust what I was reading completely until I could have the paper in my hot hands, but it’s still a strange and weird article printed on 7/6/10 entitled: “U.S. Gives Tax Breaks for Donations to Aid Settlements in the West …