Indianapolis In Boston the other day, Brother Mike Gallagher and I were talking about the lessons we had learned reading John M. Barry’s great book, “Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America.” Barry gave the inside story on how the city worked then, how the levees were blasted to flood …
Category: Personal Writings
Go Way, Ray!
Indianapolis In Chicago a week ago speaking to the SEIU Public Sector Division Leadership Assembly, then on Saturday to the ACORN Field Operations Meeting in Nashville, and again at the Progressive Strategy Seminar in Boston, I have been clearer and clearer — Mayor Ray Nagin is destroying New Orleans as effectively as Katrina tried to do. …
Crashing
Baton Rouge I had fallen into an exhausted coma last night. Reading the paper my eyes had grown heavy lying on the camping pad, and I had started dozing off by 8:30 pm. From time to time I heard voices, laughing and talking… New Orleans voices with the inflections and accents of home, but it …