New Orleans In The Battle for the Ninth Ward: ACORN, The Rebuilding of New Orleans, and the Lessons of Disaster, published last year, I had added the Lessons appendix as more and more community-based organizations sought to meet the challenges of the unexpected natural disasters that are cropping up all around us, whether in the …
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Why are NYC Hedge Funders and Rupert Murdoch messing in a NOLA School Board Race?
New Orleans In the days when New Orleans had a daily paper, it might have been a big issue that hundreds of thousands of dollars in out of state money has flooded one particular school board race. Perhaps not, because those were also the days before Katrina when 100% of the schools in New Orleans …
Lessons of Disaster: Sandy, New York City, Housing Projects, and Lost Wages
New Orleans After Katrina and the continual start-and-stop-and-slow rebuilding process in New Orleans with side trips and explorations to Kobe and more recently cities in Eastern Japan after those earthquakes and the tsunami attacks, and other cities near and far, I have come to believe that the way governments, established institutions, and community and popular organizations …