New Orleans Early on Saturday morning Scott Hagy, the ACORN Services Construction Manager, picked me up in his truck and we went out to kick the dirt around ACORN’s building sites. The big news was on Delery Street in the very northerly corner of what is now the famous Lower 9th Ward. After many months …
Category: Rebuild New Orleans
Alvar Library Saga
New Orleans In the painful rebuilding of New Orleans we have discussed the exhilarating and depressing saga of the Alvar Street Library in the Bywater neighborhood of the city several times. As faithful readers recall, it was re-opened with great fanfare as a project of the American Library Association at their convention this summer. It …
More Yes Men
New Orleans The day after my blog on the HUD hoax I spent much of the day as faithful readers know hosting Buzz Hargrove and our friends with the Canadian Auto Workers who are working hand in hand with us in the 9th ward. At the end of that day I had one more item …