New Orleans At a candidates forum last night in New Orleans with the memory of Katrina still in our hearts and in the mouth of every questioner from Local 100 or A Community Voice (formerly Louisiana ACORN), it was appropriate that the forum started with a prayer and made the call for help for Haiti. …
Category: International
Guaranteed Tips and Happy Costa Ricans
San Jose Nicholas Kristof did a column in the Times in his usual didactic, rah-rah fashion trumpeting the happiness of Costa Rican people (http://bit.ly/6i0csw). He cites a couple of different “surveys” where Costa Ricans self-evaluate and cobbles this together with the point that in 1949 the government shutdown its army and investigated more in education …
Learning Little from Indonesian Reconstruction
Quepos Five years ago the tsunami hit south Asia as bringing a terrible tragedy killing more than 225,000 people in more than a dozen countries. Banda Aceh in Indonesia was at the epicenter with almost 170,000 of the total estimated deaths. I have often spoken about our partner, the Urban Poor Consortium, and the work …