New Orleans       I fly all the time.  I don’t miss planes.  In decades of almost constant travel, I’ve messed up and missed a plane less than a handful of times, and in most cases the situations have been wild and extenuating.  I certainly know how long it takes to get from my office in New …

New Orleans       After celebrating the ACORN Clean-out and Demonstration Project’s 200th house with Mrs. Wilson on Arts Street, the Executive Board continued meeting over lunch as usual at the Praline Connection on Frenchmen Street several blocks from the office.  While waiting for lunch and reflecting on the state of their business and the city, Mayor …

New Orleans           At midnight on New Years’ Eve four families stood in front of their houses on Jourdan Avenue in the deepest part of the now famous Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans.  The fog was everywhere as it collected from the Mississippi River only blocks away and from the Industrial Canal a mere few feet …