New Orleans Something big is happening in housing. Maybe big and bad. Maybe big and unknown, but scary in its uncertainty for the future. Here are the facts that frighten. Home ownership dropped again in the last quarter of 2016 and when it did so, it fell below 63% to the lowest level in …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Lynching, Police, and Black Lives Matter
New Orleans A book on lynching is really not the kind of thing that a lot of people would pull off the shelves for a summer read, but they might be wrong for thinking that way, at least if listening to Dr. Karlos Hill on KABF’s Wade’s World is any indication. Dr. Hill, a professor …
The Poignant Moments of Escorting a Soldier Home
New Orleans As we prepared to take off from Denver on the last leg of our flight on United Airlines, the pilot came on the intercom with an announcement that fortunately I had not heard in all my miles of air travel. He said that we were carrying an escort who was flying a solider …