Missoula In the day to day ebb and flow of work, issues, campaigns, and people, the events of the country and world seem urgent and immediate, and of course they are, even though invisible to most. Preparing to move from our Airstream fishing camp in the Saffire Mountains along Rock Creek is always a helpful …
Month: August 2014
Exploiting the Precariat through the So-Called Sharing or Peer Marketplace
Missoula Running around doing errands and catching up on Skype calls and emails in Missoula on our last trip in town before heading back home, doesn’t give me much time to keep up with the news, but hitting the Times business page quickly, I saw an article about the so-called “sharing economy” which seemed to …
An Architect for Disasters and the Poor
Missoula The problem of affordable housing and post-disaster housing are coupled together by cost and for those who care, by speed. Cost, because no one in government anymore wants to put the real price tag on what it would take to finally put all Americans into decent and affordable housing, much less the hundreds of …