Giant, sucking vortexes of storm water

This is not a picture of my back lane
Photo by Michael Klassen
I fell into a storm drain yesterday. Right outside my back gate- you can’t avoid it really if you’re walking into the lane. We’re at a low point, kind of the bottom of a bowl. It’s something we didn’t notice in our quickie [...]

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Naomi’s hard-core

Before Hurricane Katrina there were 5 charter schools (where public money goes to fund private schools, often for profit) and 120 public schools in New Orleans. Now there are 30 public schools and 40 charter schools. The right wing think tanks in the U.S. pounce when disaster strikes at a dizzying speed ready to [...]

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