New Orleans I wanted to share what I hoped was a simple story of one woman’s persistence prevailing over a giant, rogue company and the ineffectual enforcement by a city of its regulations governing the company. That story had as its activist, community hero a woman named Ada Phleger, a young attorney in the Federal …
Count Me In, America!
New Orleans The US Constitution is clear: count everyone every ten years. Period. No, ifs, ands, and buts about it. In the Supreme Court case the justices who claim to be “originalists,” meaning that they believe every single word of the document is evergreen despite the passage of almost 250 years, and all that has …
Housing Prices Continue to Hit New Highs Everywhere
New Orleans Housing is important enough that it can trigger a worldwide recession, especially if the market bursts first in the United States, as we all found in 2007. Ironically, it is not important enough that data on housing prices, much less rents, is included in general economic forecasts from the worlds’ main financial bodies …