July 27, 2021 New Orleans As the clock ticks to the final days of the national eviction moratorium and the beginning of what many predict will be the eviction tsunami, this housing crisis joins the long line of other crises we have experienced, including almost everything with the pandemic, as case studies in …
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Past Time for Medicare to Cover Dental, Vision, and Hearing
June 13, 2021 Pearl River There’s more truth than rumor in the joke about “getting old isn’t for wimps” or words to that effect. My dad passed at 87. It happened in the wink of an eye. His heart just stopped. Period. We weren’t ready, even though intellectually we knew he had a pacemaker and …
Hipsters of the World Unite
New Orleans Hipsters are absolutely not taking over the world, but it’s hard not to find them almost all over the world. MoveHub, an international shipping company got some free marketing buzz by putting out a “hipster index” over the last couple of years. They use five factors: coffee shops, record stores, tattoo parlors, …
Macron Protests Too Much on Anti-Islamic Actions
New Orleans Ben Smith, formerly of Politico, joined the New York Times over the last year as their media columnist and has quickly become a must-read in my book. His sources are amazing, his scoops unique, and his perspective wide-ranging and invaluable. The Times seems to know this, not only because they give him …
Georgia, Ground Zero for the Senate
Atlanta It took five hours and half a tank of gas for me and two organizers for the ACORN Tenants Union in Atlanta to visit more than a dozen apartment complexes in five different counties around metro Atlanta and the perimeter. The day had started in misty fog but ended in clear skies, bright sunlight, …