New Orleans Help comes from some special and unexpected places for rebuilding New Orleans. Meetings over the years with our friends in the Canadian labor movement produced a call and a connection through Carol Phillips, the Executive Assistant to President Buzz Hargrove, and then to Colin Heslop, the CAW Skilled Trades Director, that asked if …
Category: Rebuild New Orleans
The New Normal
New Orleans Frequently in the city these days people will talk about the “new normal” in New Orleans. It is recognition that the city is not going to be what it was in the past, and some things seem normal now that might have been unusual or bizarre before the storm. Here are three examples …
Neighbors in the News
New Orleans I give the New York Times begrudging credit for their coverage of New Orleans both during and after Katrina. They have been committed to the story and stayed on it with a couple of reporters to this day. Some of their coverage drives me crazy and the too frequent, top-down, “get ‘r done!” …