Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WANT TO SEE A CIVIC MONUMENT THAT NO CITY would ever want? Go to New Orleans and proceed to the intersection of Congress and Law streets, just a few blocks from the tourists' Latin Quarter. Walk anywhere in that neighborhood of trashed storefronts and blunt-shouldered housing projects. It won't take long to find walls that are spattered with grimy little craters. Those are bullet holes. Every one of them is an unofficial memorial to the mayhem that was daily life around there until not so long...
...work has made a difference. By the end of last year killings around the three projects had dropped 74%. A dozen dead bodies per annum is still no small problem. But if you don't happen to be one of them, it is cause enough for celebration. Lately, the neighborhood even sees its share of those spontaneous street parades that are defining outbreaks of civic life in New Orleans. What are people celebrating? Maybe just the return of their freedom to move around...
...PBHA's plans for a new board and the House and Neighborhood Development Program's (HAND's) request for a new staff member are any indication, the face of public service by then may be much changed...
...domestic violence. Soon she was being featured on the evening news, Nightline and Larry King Live. On the day of the verdict, Bruce turned out 1,500 supporters for a candlelight vigil in Westwood; three days later, she led a protest march of 5,000 through Simpson's Brentwood neighborhood...
REGARDLESS OF THE SHORTCOMINGS OF the CWA, I place most of the blame for Elisa's death on people in the neighborhood who knew this family. Awilda Lopez, a brutish beast of a woman who unmercifully abused Elisa and beat her to death, could not have got away with this if someone had stopped by to question and report her as many times as was necessary to get the child away from her mother. We are all our brothers' and sisters' keepers. We cannot wait for someone else to do the right thing. If we see something that is wrong...