New Orleans I have shared the saga of our neighborhood library and its struggling efforts to comeback with help from many friends. Faithful readers will remember we (me and my son) tried to help out by going over on odd weekends and trying to mow the grass, but this plan, which started out so well, …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Kobe Reports
New Orleans Living through the Katrina disaster, which some experts classify as the worst disaster to befall a large American city in the country’s history, makes one more attuned to disasters everywhere. Frequently over the last 15 months, we would hear that a dozen years ago Kobe, Japan had suffered a devastating earthquake and subsequent …
No Family Values: Immigrants Catch-22
San Francisco To open up the Tides Network (www.tides.org) board meetings Drummond Pike, the master of these ceremonies, had invited a guest, ACORN’s long time friend and ally from Los Angeles, Angelica Salas, the director of CHIRLA, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles (www.chirla.org ). Angelica and her team had been important in …