Detroit The ACORN National Board’s fall meeting was held downtown on Washington and Michigan Boulevard. Washington’s statue was across from the hotel’s front door. Across the street on the other side was the gutted-out shell of the Book Cadillac, the formerly grand dame of Detroit hotels, being rehabilitated into a Westin combo hotel-condo …
Category: International
Notes from the Long Road
Paris Like a kid before Christmas, I was up and up early to catch the Tube to Heathrow. I just about opened up the Bayswater Station. I was almost 30 minutes early for the first train from Glochester at 5:54 AM on the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow. I was going home, and …
Undermining the Liberal Consensus
London It had been a classically London day from the movies. The rain had been steady and chilly since 8 AM in the morning. Thanks to a Houston Astros hat and British Columbia raingear, I was fine except for soggy toes on what Jerry Jeff Walker used to call my “manly footwear.” …