New Orleans A friend sent me an interesting report done by the Laborers’ International Union called “The Ticking Time Bomb: Adjustable Rate Mortgages and Depreciating Home Values in New Subdivisions.” Our old comrade and colleague, Jordan Ash, seemed to be the principal author of the report, and we were curious how he had been …
Category: Personal Writings
Obama’s Organizing Boss
Gulf Shores Reading Obama’s Dreams book, I became interested in the organizer Obama mentioned who had hired him in Chicago and was his supervisor. His name was Jerry Kellman, and he seemed to be the real thing, but I was surprised that I had never heard of him in all my years around the work. …
Marsh Mallow
Gulf Shores Almost as interesting as the white sand and rolling waves several hundred yards south of the beach house where we are all staying, is the salt marsh only fifty feet away to the north running for hundreds of acres through inlet swamps and a brackish lake not far away. Cat tails spring up …