New Orleans On the balcony of our office with a slight breeze on an unseasonably warm day, we talked about elections scheduled for 2019 in Albania and Bulgaria. Earlier in the day I had forwarded an article from the Journal to colleagues in France and Cameroon about the months every year that the longtime …
Month: November 2018
Too Close to Call Brings on the Dread
New Orleans For all of us who lived through the 2016 election, seeing headlines in the paper the day before the midterm elections warning that it is “too close to call,” brings forward feelings somewhere between dread and total depression, along with quick mental notes on how to prepare for the apocalypse. The major pollsters, …
La Terre Institute
Bayou La Terre, Mississippi It was time for a field trip for our friends and visitors from Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Albania, some of whom were in their last few days after weeks of working and training in New Orleans with ACORN International and our Louisiana affiliate, A Community Voice. For various reasons some weeks ago, I …