New Orleans These things all take time. I finally am bothering friends and family about how to make our fishing camp on the bayou abutting the Big Branch National Wildlife Refuge a mile up from Lake Ponchartrain useable again without rebuilding. A pontoon and pulley operation rather than a bridge, decking with temporary structures or …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Soft Case for Home Ownership: Forced Savings/Low Interest Rates
New Orleans Dueling columns in the Times smashed the drunken or doped spin of the Realtors Association trying to claim that the housing market was “back” and in the “Your Money” section made a soft and shrugging case for home ownership: “Indeed, many people who are buying at the moment are locking in mortgage …
Depression Level Unemployed for Disabled Workers
New Orleans I was at a lost to figure out what shocked me more, the report that the US Government had never looked at the impact on employment and the disabled, or the stark terror of the depression level unemployment figures: 14.5% for 2009 and already 16.4% by midyear 2010! The news was, if anything, …