Biz New Orleans, April 2020 “I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it.” This quotation, variously attributed to Patrick Henry and Voltaire, but actually invented by Voltaire’s biographer, is often considered to be the epitome of one of American’s founding principles, the right […]
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CBNO Blog, February 2020 One of the most famous passages from the Christian bible has the Roman governor Pontius Pilate asking Jesus, “What is truth?” The 1970s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice, elaborated on this, having Pilate sing, “But what is truth? Is truth unchanging law?
Published February 2021 I should start by saying that I find Donald Trump abhorrent as an individual and disagreed with almost every policy he attempted to put forward. I am incredibly relieved that he is no longer President of the United States. Yet there are people I know, like and respect who remain real Trump
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Published June 2020 Breathing should not be a privilege. There are so many things that unite us as members of the human race, but there is nothing more fundamental than breathing. Breath is life. Life for the human race. The. Only. Race of people on earth. Nothing saddens or discourages me
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“This city is what it is because its citizens are what they are.” – Plato There is no such thing as a resilient city without meaningful, and preferably formally structured, community-based, civic engagement. An urban environment exists for and because of people. Thus the residents of any city are the primary stakeholders in that city,
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