Stonetown, Zanzibar The electricity keeps flickering on and off every few minutes forcing me to decide exactly how much I care for the news on either CNN, BBC or Al Jazceera. The weather is hot and humid with the kind of haze associated in my mind with days looking out on the water of …
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Oliver’s Letter to the Mayor
February 5, 2009 London From the brand new Terminal 5 at Heathrow I can see the snow still on the ground everywhere even on this gray, overcast sky. Planes just hours before mine were still being cancelled in this city that seems to have about as much experience with a snow storm as my …
Punishing the Poor
February 2, 2009 New Orleans The often coercive and restrictive control that states are now exercising over the TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families) monies that replaced the old welfare system during the Clinton Administration finally got some much deserved criticism, through it was buried, in Jason DeParle’s story on the front page of …