New Orleans Steve Bradberry, the head organizer of New Orleans ACORN, and I were delighted to be invited by Professor Ken Reardon, our great planning partner since the storm from Cornell University, to welcome the troops for their field work in the 9th Ward. There were some 60 students from Cornell and Columbia in the …
Category: Community Organizing
Derailing Planning in New Orleans
New Orleans Talking about “planning” in New Orleans after the storm has become an oxymoron. We are now 13 1/2 months after the storm and there is still nothing that anyone would concede is a plan for rebuilding the city that has everyone’s agreement. Mayor Nagin’s Cannizaro committee in the beginning turned the job of …
Urban In-fill
Nashville We met my old friend and frequent co-conspirator, Joel Solomon, at the Frothy Monkey (how about that for a name!) a couple of blocks from his infrequent office in his old hometown of Nashville. Brian Kettenring, ACORN’s Southern Regional Director was with me, and our mission was to get sage advice from Joel that …