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 …
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The Story Behind the Iconic Andrea Dworkin Bullhorn Picture
Buffalo The New York Review of Books is not exactly everyday reading for the masses. As a publication, it is what its title implies: a review of books. It is also a cultural touchstone for the last more than fifty years for the intelligentsia with long form essays on arts, movies, politics, and other matters …
Fighting the NIMBYs on Affordable Housing
New Orleans Sadly, it’s not just an aberration in my own neighborhood where bizarrely the “not in my back yard” crowd fought fiercely to block the return of affordable housing to a long established Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) site. It seems to be almost everywhere in big American cities with increasingly entitled, …