New Orleans Born in Laramie and raised in and around the West as a boy, it’s still a place of my heart and a taproot to my life, so I try to keep up as I travel along my winding roads and partly I do that by reading the High Country News. Flipping through an issue on …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Reflective Listening
New Orleans What in the world is “reflective listening?” I stumbled onto the concept looking up a word while reading an article about how volunteers were trained to handle a crisis text line used largely by younger people from teens through their twenties. The purpose was to defuse depression, prevent suicide, and in many cases …
Is Affordable Housing Being Crucified by Inequality
New Orleans Increasingly it seems that we are going to have to decouple the issue of home ownership and affordable housing at least in the traditional sense of small footprints in the dirt with picket fences around them. Home ownership due to harder loan standards, tighter credit, and the Great Recession has now fallen to …