New Orleans Kenneth Wade, CEO of NeighborWorks, the Congressionally funded housing support program, had called out of the blue and invited me to breakfast to talk about ways that we could work together. When we said down, Kenneth said that before we started he wanted to mention that there were a couple of things that …
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Marking Recovery Time
New Orleans I have shared the saga of our neighborhood library and its struggling efforts to comeback with help from many friends. Faithful readers will remember we (me and my son) tried to help out by going over on odd weekends and trying to mow the grass, but this plan, which started out so well, …
Kobe Reports
New Orleans Living through the Katrina disaster, which some experts classify as the worst disaster to befall a large American city in the country’s history, makes one more attuned to disasters everywhere. Frequently over the last 15 months, we would hear that a dozen years ago Kobe, Japan had suffered a devastating earthquake and subsequent …