Date: March 24th, 2006

France: Tinder, meet match?

24 March, 2006 (12:27) | Uncategorized |

From today’s New York Times, confirmed by Reuters, a worrying snippet regarding the French labor protests:
 
The protest began in a combative but festive mood, with thousands of students setting off from a large square in southern Paris, boosting colorful banners and chanting slogans against the new “first employment contract.”
 

Reuters
 
But the atmosphere changed quickly as sporadic […]

NNO: A ghost of New Orleans yet to come?

24 March, 2006 (10:25) | Uncategorized |

As many debate what New New Orleans should be, and as those who live there individually fashion what it will be, we need periodically to remind ourselves of what it could be.  Among all its possible tomorrows, New New Orleans could be the American Venice, or it could be a ghost, city as memory, as […]