New Orleans A report was issued by something called the Mercatus Center, which is based in Virginia on the campus of George Mason University. This outfit is doing a 5-year study of post-Katrina recovery efforts with a team of professors and researchers they have assembled. I suspect this is a study that starts with …
Author: wade
Wrong Team
New Orleans Senator Hillary Clinton announced an upgrade to her anti-foreclosure plan. A quote running on the McClatchy newspapers wire and picked up in the Washington Post, Denver Post, and other papers from Bruce Dorpalen stated fairly: Bruce Dorpalen, director of housing counseling at ACORN Housing, a nonprofit mortgage counselor, welcomed Clinton’s proposals but …
Slum Tours
New Orleans You would be surprised how often we debate the issues that revolve around “slum tourism” as these events have come to be called. Most acknowledge the role of the favela tours in Rio de Janeiro in developing the notion that there might be value in taking tourists to see poverty. It …