Chicago When neighborhoods are wracked by foreclosures and the abandonment that accompanied the 2008 Great Recession and financial chicanery that popped the real estate bubble, significant studies have documented the loss in value experienced not only by houses on the block, but also houses within a mile away that also lose value. Put enough abandonment …
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USA Election: A Movement Can Always Beat A Machine
New Orleans The election was over early, just not the way many had expected. I had always argued that regardless of the polls and pundits the election was going to be close, but I had also argued that I thought Clinton would win. Now, I will have to substitute the word “thought” for “hoped.” I …
Get Out the Vote!
New Orleans Election Day, finally! Only one more thing that everyone needs to do and should have already done: get out and vote. Yes, your vote may have been suppressed, but get out and vote. Yes, you may be depressed at the choices and grossed out by the campaign, but you really don’t have …