New Orleans There’s a U-Haul location right at the railroad tracks hardly more than a half-mile from where I live and even closer to where we were assembling to move stuff from half a shotgun double to a storage unit a couple of miles down the road. Given the convenience, it never occurred to me to call …
Stuff
New Orleans In the red-hot real estate market in Hong Kong they are selling something called “mosquito” apartments that are less than 180 square feet. There was a picture in the paper comparing the size, unfavorably, to that of a parking slot. Real estate brokers were suggesting that you could use the window sill for …
Finally, A Full-Throated Call for Universal Voter Registration
New Orleans Well, now we’re talking! Finally, we may see find some politicians speaking up and taking a chance on more democracy, rather than just hoping for more rich people and campaign donations. In a speech at Texas Southern University, a largely African-American institution in Houston, where she was getting an award of some kind, …