New Orleans We now have three elections in the United States. There’s the general election in 2016 of course when we pull the lever for our candidates, sorting out the ballot babies from the two main contenders offered by the Republicans and Democrats. There’s the primary election where we poll between candidates earlier in the …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Karl Rove Points the Way to the White House for Democrats
New Orleans You don’t expect Karl Rove to be the voice of reason for Republicans, given his role as the master political operative between the two Bush presidencies, but these days you have embrace whatever help you can find. In this case, Rove was writing a “sober up” memo to the Republican faithful and trying …
Gentrification Outstripping Community Development
New Orleans Josh Ishimatsu wrote an interesting piece for theRooflines blog managed by Shelterforce magazine that asks troubling questions about whether rapid development in the form of gentrification has outstripped community development efforts. He might have even gone farther and asked whether community development corporations have too often been the nonprofit stalking horses for …