We’re not in the habit of responding to each other’s blog posts, but Mike’s last post warrants a response on two levels. First, Mike didn’t so mildly exercise his 1stAmendment right as he states. (Though I must admit I’m glad his mention of it indicates he knows...
So my partner’s delicate civil liberties were trampled upon Wednesday night. At about 11 PM, after Shamus picked me up and we were heading into the office, we were pulled over by New Orleans finest. Actually, we literally got pulled over at our office by...
[caption id="attachment_48" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A gutted home in the Lower 9th "][/caption] So we did a part of the lower 9th last week. We’re in between neighborhoods and we’re scoping out our next canvass. That’s how we do it; pick a whole neighborhood and search every...
[caption id="attachment_45" align="alignright" width="483" caption="Searching for squatters in an abandoned apartment building"][/caption] We surveyed an abandoned apartment complex this week. A story ran in the newspaper with neighbors complaining that the complex in question was teeming with both vermin and squatters. Fortunately, this distinction means that...
“Mike and I are going to be checking out an encampment on the Algiers Levee tonight.” I inserted this into the general goodbye-banter between two people who’ve grown familiar with each other – amidst such standard stuff as “good night”, “be safe” and “see you tomorrow”. ...
It’s a fine line between a brilliant idea and intrusive noise. I think we crossed it when you strategically gutted your last apartment with your elbow....
You never know who you are going to meet on our streets. We were standing outside the Royal Sonnesta on Bourbon Street for a fundraiser. Mike was smoking a cigarette and I was watching people passing by wearing Mardi Gras beads and drinking hurricanes. Tuesday night...
We have a big problem in little old New Orleans. In fact, we have 65,000 of them. Almost four years after the federal levees failed to hold back the wrath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is now the #1 most blighted city in America. We...
I recently got word that University of Michigan law school won’t let me defer law school again. I was accepted 16 months ago, and a few months later asked for and received a one-year deferral . But now my request for a second one-year deferral...