New Orleans Uber is the canary in the coal mine. After years of listening to the reports that held up Uber as the herald of the future, creating a new business model where an application would substitute for an employer, the accounting is finally coming due. Its drivers were touted as the vanguard of …
Month: November 2017
And, if You Make it Through the Mortgage Maze, then There’s Insurance
Indianapolis Saving money on the ticket I was flying out of Indianapolis and that meant joining the truck drivers and precious few others on the interstates and US highways in the middle of the night linking Detroit and Indianapolis, so I could beat the rain and make the plane. In one of our last meetings we …
In Detroit Neighborhoods, Housing is the Center of Every Conversation
Detroit It’s a good thing that we wanted to talk about housing in Detroit, because no matter the organization or the individual, invariably in Detroit the conversation comes back to housing. Despite all the talk, solutions are illusive, but efforts and ideas are bountiful. Although, maybe it depends on who you are. One person told …