New Orleans Without any question for the last forty years the single largest funder of basic, hard scrabble community organizing has been CCHD, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. For years roughly $9 million in donations received across the country through a special collection administered by all Catholic churches has made the support of building …
Month: December 2013
Debbie Downer Alert: The Site Works Much Better!
New Orleans Despite all of the drama-rama around the Affordable Care Act website, it works much, much better now than it did a month ago, and this has been the case for sometime as improvements in speed and effectiveness have been achieved. I’m not saying it’s perfect, and regardless of the improvements, it’s still not …
Moving, Painting, and Getting Organized
New Orleans With any luck the nice thing about moving into new space is that it forces you to get organized at least a bit, make some decisions about random items, and, heck, maybe even knock a few layers of dust off. Better yet, when you own (in the sense of paying the mortgage, so to …