Kansas City From Missoula, Montana to New Orleans is a long haul, more than 2200 miles. It’s not something I recommend doing every year, but every once in a while it’s good to see what’s happening out there in America. Having made it as far as my uncle’s in Kansas City, means we’ve traveled across …
Month: July 2013
Richmond’s Takes Charge of Foreclosures
Kansas City Richmond, California became the first city in the country to take charge of the foreclosure crisis, lingering since 2007, by using its powers of eminent domain to force the hands of the banks to renegotiate the mortgages to market value. As it happens, this issue of Social Policy leads with a great …
Why Not a Lyme Victims Association?
Rock Creek Sitting around the cooking area on Rock Creek, the subject of Lyme disease came up quickly, and there was a good reason for that. Partly, folks were talking about a fairly recent article in The New Yorker that almost all of us had read. The article was one of those maddening, though painfully …