Denver New Century Financial Corporation dead in the heart of Orange County, which used to be subprime central, was the canary in the mine that not enough people heard as their demise ushered in the great meltdown for home buyers and mortgage holders. The other day a piece in the Los Angeles Times noted that …
Author: wade
A Hustle versus a Job
Denver For several years Local 100 represented buggy drivers in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Any tourist in the city has seen the mule driven buggies lined up in front of Jackson Square to give tours which are a mixture of fact, fiction, and raw personality from the drivers themselves. In meeting after meeting …
Fence Riding in Texas and Louisiana
Canyon Flying, I’m herded from winged silver cylinder from city A to city B, and once there jump into the messy lives and chaos of people and our times. For a decade or so every winter Orell Fitzsimmons and I used to take a week, plus or minus, and go fence riding, as I would …