New Orleans Joe Fox, an old comrade and friend visiting New Orleans yesterday, dropped by for a cup of coffee at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse on St. Claude, a tour of WAMF-LP, and a bit of nostalgia over the more than forty years we’ve worked with and known each other. We reprised an old story that …
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Lessons of Disaster
New Orleans We keep a constant hurricane watch at my house. Anyone who has ever had the eye of a hurricane pass over them, keeps their eye on every hurricane. Having just seen the impact of Harvey in Houston and Beaumont, I have been upset over some of the lessons forgotten since Katrina. I have …
Major Lease Purchase Option Company Comes to Agreement in Campaign
New Orleans Agreements are always hard to win and in the campaign to stop predatory practices in the contract for deed, land purchase, lease and rent-to-own markets in lower income and working communities any such understandings would have seemed unlikely as the campaign began in 2017. But, now after months of actions, demands, and back-and-forth …