New Orleans Gene therapy is both the wave of the future and a huge ethical quandary of almost unimaginable complexity. A young Chinese doctor, who attracted international publicity by becoming the first to perform gene therapy in the womb on a set of twins to potentially provide immunity to a disease to which they …
Month: January 2019
Change Coming to Rural Electric Cooperative Governance – Finally!
New Orleans Cooperatives are something that many of us hold up as models of how things might work in a better – and different – world than the one where we now live and work. Rural electric cooperatives display their democratic and membership principles as part of the cooperative movement since the 1930s on …
Steps to Take in Fighting Gentrification
New Orleans Talking to Randy Shaw, tenant organizer and lawyer with the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, on Wade’s World about his new book, Generation Priced Out, he mentioned several steps that are worth research and action in cities everywhere facing gentrification. In fact, he emphasized several times that one of the things that …