New Orleans On Saturday morning local ACORN leaders headed by Louisiana ACORN state chair Beulah Laboistrie, national ACORN leaders headed by ACORN President Maude Hurd, and top New Orleans elected officials headed by Councilme–at–Large Oliver Thomas and Arnie Fielkow, gathered over grits and eggs at Holy Angels in order to get the first inside pre–publication look …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Tianamen Square
Bejing Brown is the color of Bejing, just as it was Shanghai, but here at least this is less a matter of the air than the stark and almost barren landscape everywhere around the city. Everything was clearer partially because we read that the weather was changing. A front was coming in from Siberia which would …
Urban Planning Exhibition
Shanghai They know they have problems here, and they are trying to get their arms wrapped around some of them. The Chinese envision Shanghai as the 21st Century New York and want to magnetize commerce here. The skyscrapers sprouting through the concrete and old town like weeds is part of that along with accommodating the surge …