New Orleans I was in Mexico City reading the Times on-line and, frankly, didn’t trust what I was reading completely until I could have the paper in my hot hands, but it’s still a strange and weird article printed on 7/6/10 entitled: “U.S. Gives Tax Breaks for Donations to Aid Settlements in the West …
Category: Personal Writings
Forty Years and Counting
New Orleans I was a couple of minutes late and walked into a speech by long time New Orleans community leader Beulah Laboistrie’s remarks about her decades of leadership in ACORN and now A Community Voice, which has arisen from the ashes of the organization in Louisiana, so I was looking sidelong at the …
BP Might Be Obama’s Katrina
New Orleans I know Venice, Louisiana pretty well, not that there is a lot to know. It’s a strip of land dominated by a blacktop highway ending in water and bordered by a fringe of shell gravel here and there and nothing but water. I worked 14 day shifts on and 7 days off as …