New Orleans A front page article in the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate noted that days over fifty years ago then Transportation Secretary John Volpe pulled the plug on plans to build an expressway that would have run along the Mississippi River and through the historic Vieux Carre, transforming and destroying parts of the famous New …
Month: July 2019
One Woman Against AirBnb is a Hollow Victory in New Orleans
New Orleans I wanted to share what I hoped was a simple story of one woman’s persistence prevailing over a giant, rogue company and the ineffectual enforcement by a city of its regulations governing the company. That story had as its activist, community hero a woman named Ada Phleger, a young attorney in the Federal …
Count Me In, America!
New Orleans The US Constitution is clear: count everyone every ten years. Period. No, ifs, ands, and buts about it. In the Supreme Court case the justices who claim to be “originalists,” meaning that they believe every single word of the document is evergreen despite the passage of almost 250 years, and all that has …