UPDATE: Demolition of public housing complex halted in New Orleans; City Council hearing next week

From the Associated Press, December 14
NEW ORLEANS: Demolition of three New Orleans public housing complexes, slated to start this weekend, was halted Friday amid complaints about the scarcity of housing for the poor after Hurricane Katrina.
The Housing Authority of New Orleans, which is run by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, agreed [...]

The Garden of Hope

The desktop image on my computer screen is a photograph of a garden, sunny and lush with stands of foxgloves, rhododendron and daisies; a path leads away from the viewer toward the green shade of an arbor. The name of the garden is El Jardin de las Esperanza—the garden of hope. I put [...]

Dear D.H. Griffin

Dear D.H. Griffin,
I was outraged to find out that a company based here in Greensboro is receiving 3 million dollars to destroy public housing in New Orleans.
Why is DH Griffin profiting off of displacement of low-income people? Wasn’t the hurricane bad enough without adding to it by destroying more homes?
This time of year many [...]

Meet The Chickens

Our flock began last spring as six little chicks in a cardboard box in the living room. They graduated to larger and larger boxes and finally, when the weather was warm enough, to the handsome coop and pen that Mark, Jodi, Crystal and Will built under the crape myrtle tree in the back yard. [...]