New Orleans When there is no leadership in government, business, or much of anywhere else the normal way of doing things just begins to fail to work and finally you bite the bullet and realize that we have to figure out a way to do it ourselves. Beginning this Saturday on North Roman in Treme a …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Wildcat
Los Angeles My day started early in New Orleans looking at houses in the 1200 block of Desire Street, a couple of blocks from St. Claude. Not much water, but there had been one roof after another blown to smithereens. Shortly afterwards three young fellows from Common Ground climbed up one of the roofs to try …
Mayor Math
New Orleans Max Allison, the political genius behind the almost forgotten, but still legendary, Congressman Wilbur Mills from Arkansas, used to talk about following “the equation.” The way that inputs of various kinds fit into the political calculus of running and winning. I found Bob Tucker, an equally legendary political operator in New Orleans, yesterday in …