New Orleans The Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California has released a report looking at many federal and state subsidies directed at relief for lower income Americans. All good. What they found though is that a huge percentage of this kind of support is not in Republican ideological terms, …
Month: April 2015
Signs at the Borderland of Gentrification
New Orleans In New Orleans in the Bywater-Marigny neighborhoods where I live and work were in the throes of a long drawn out, desultory stretch for decades since the 1980s. We were going to be “hot” one day, but who knew when. Into the latter years of the 20th Century, one thing or another like the …
The Vietnam War Nightmares Continue
New Orleans So many wars, so little time. We have come to the point where when someone asks an American “about the war,” we have to say, “Which one?” One of the two Iraq wars? Afghanistan and its continuing and unending conflicts? Like I said, which one? For people of a certain age though the …