December 2007

Day 842: Housing In New Orleans

December 17, 2007

While pitting housing advocates and developers against one another, in yet another made-for-media black and white battle of the haves and have-nots, the controversy surrounding the demolition of the B.W. Cooper, C.J. Peete, St. Bernard and Lafitte projects stinks of one thing: There is more to this mess than meets the eye, and it’s hard to believe anything as [...]

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Day 842: Back In The USofA

December 17, 2007

Been away so long I hardly knew the place. Gee, it’s good to be back home. Leave it ’til tomorrow to unpack my case. Honey, reconnect the blog, I’m back in the USofA. Bye bye, geophysics, Holland and Paris.  Helloooooo, Christmas and Carnival.  From one set of excitement and challenges to another.  One thing I learned from [...]

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Day 830: Sinterklaas

December 5, 2007

St. Nicholas swoops down over the Netherlands tonight and leaves a bag full of presents for eager little Dutch kids dreaming of opening them first thing tomorrow.  Sinterklaas is much like our Christmas except that it has nothing to do with Christ’s birth and makes one wonder what a fat white man from the North [...]

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