Grenoble Every four years social housing tenants in France have the opportunity to run for seats on the board of their city’s housing authority. Admittedly, the seats allotted for tenant representation are a minority of the board positions, because in France, as elsewhere, a voice for tenants is preferable to allowing real power for tenants. …
Month: October 2018
Signing up for the Taylor Swift Fan Club
Grenoble I haven’t been a big Taylor Swift fan. Even when she was country, she was poppy. Now that she’s all pop, I can’t really keep up. I know she sells a lot of music, and that she is often mentioned in the same breath as Beyonce, but who can tell from day to day. …
Harder to Cover-up State Sanctioned Killing and to Hide
Grenoble Monkey, see. Monkey, do. First from what the British and others have pieced together, Russian state operatives tracked down former spies and used weapons-grade, government access only chemicals to poison them on British soil. As they say in the UK, that’s not even fully sorted yet, but then here come the Saudi’s. With even …