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	<title>The Redstar Perspective</title>
	<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog</link>
	<description>Urban, gender and development politics: Analysis, Reflection &#038; Outrage</description>
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		<title>Lower 9th Ward Photo Essay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not blogging here again,  I just figured if I was still in folks&#8217; rss feeds, they might want to check this out.
I&#8217;d been wanting to write about LA&#8217;s Gov. Bobby Jindal, who&#8217;s been popping up around the intertubes lately as a possible VP candidate for McCain, a former biology major who&#8217;s performed exorcisms, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/06/23/lower-9th-ward-photo-essay/</link>
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		<title>P.S.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am no longer checking comments here.  If you need to reach me, please e-mail me.

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		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/05/22/ps/</link>
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		<title>So long, farewell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE (10:55 p.m.): Apparently I&#8217;m not the only one quitting.  HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson is expected to resign tomorrow.  Wahoo!!!  Ok, now I&#8217;m done.  Read on.
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It&#8217;s with some sadness and some relief that I write this post: I will not be blogging anymore at The Redstar Perspective.  This has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/30/so-long-farewell/</link>
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		<title>Housing Market Fallout Further Threatens New Orleans Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the housing market goes to complete sh*t, Gulf Opportunity (GO) Zone tax credits intended to spur housing development in the Gulf rapidly are losing value for investors, threatening to stall already precarious housing recovery in New Orleans and across the region.
Homeowners are not the only one at risk in our crashing housing market.  Renters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/24/housing-market-fallout-further-threatens-new-orleans-recovery/</link>
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		<title>The Reality-Based Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clinton/Obama supporters on the internet:
Since your descent into abject hackery, Petey, your reading capacity has diminished a great deal. But thanks for shoving words in my mouth, you fucking prick.
Clinton/Obama supporters on the ground:
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Photo by author taken March 4, 2008 in San Antonio, TX.

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		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-reality-based-community/</link>
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		<title>Tent City U.S.A.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 7+ years of Bush, our economy is in the worst shape since the Depression.  Tent cities are even in the public consciousness.  These developments point to the consistent, callous pattern of government neglect and abdication of responsibility under the Bush Administration, who, along with a GOP-led Congress, put into overdrive the worst trends of three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/21/tent-city-usa/</link>
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		<title>Class, Power &#038; Voting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because election fever has overtaken my brain, I&#8217;ve been neglecting the issues I usually talk about here: poverty, urban development, housing, inequality, and post-Katrina New Orleans. (That my blog readership is way up reinforces the notion that no one likes to talk about poor people.  Sigh.)  So I pass the mike to Prof. Peter Dreier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/20/race-class-voting/</link>
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		<title>Only 1 in 10 Americans find it problematic that women are held to a higher standard than men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From a CBS &#8220;Oppression Olympics&#8221; poll, insipidly titled &#8220;Gender Matters More Than Race&#8221; (My emphases, of course):
Voters are slightly more likely to say that a woman candidate faces more obstacles than a black candidate when it comes to presidential politics even as they see racism as a more serious problem for the nation overall, according [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/19/only-1-in-10-americans-find-it-problematic-that-women-are-held-to-a-higher-standard-than-men/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Speech II: His people, my people, our people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated.  3/18/08.  10:11 p.m.)
Obama&#8217;s Speech is here. Here&#8217;s my first reaction (and here are others).  I want to respond now to the truth he raises about loving those who make us who we are, warts and all, and using that unconditional love of our deeply flawed, contradictory pasts and selves to bring about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/18/obamas-speech-ii-his-people-my-people-our-people/</link>
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		<title>Interlude: Reactions to Obama&#8217;s speech from around the web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Philly speech is here.  My initial thoughts on the audacity of his campaign are here. 
Initial reactions from around the web are coming in.  I agree with Melissa at Shakesville about the absence of reaction to Wright&#8217;s comments about Clinton.  She links it to complaints (like mine) about elitism, and I&#8217;d only add that sexism is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/18/interlude-reactions-to-obamas-speech-from-around-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Speech I: Movements v. Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The full transcript of Obama&#8217;s Philadelphia speech on race this morning is here. 
Throughout this campaign, I - a Clinton supporter - have found myself relating more personally to the foibles of the Obamas.  I&#8217;m supporting Clinton for a number of reasons I&#8217;ve elaborated on previously, but I&#8217;ve often felt it was a real shame she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/18/contradictions-i/</link>
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		<title>Spring Forward, Fall Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE, 3/13/08: NAGIN WON&#8217;T SIGN DEMOLITION PERMIT FOR LAFITTE.  GOOD FOR HIM.  I&#8217;M MOVING THIS 3/10/08 POST ABOUT MY RECENT TRIP TO NOLA BACK UP TO THE TOP. 
I am sitting at Sound Cafe in the Marigny in New Orleans.  I have a full disposable digital camera in my free conference bag that contains two very depressing photos of the partially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/13/spring-forward-fall-back/</link>
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		<title>The T continues to exceed expectations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;of its inability to deliver services, that is&#8230;
Ridership continues to decline, while the use of public transportation continues to grow nationwide.

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		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/11/the-t-continues-to-exceed-expectations/</link>
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		<title>The Gulf Coast in the news today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, let&#8217;s thank NY Gov. Spitzer for reminding us of Vitter&#8217;s sexual indiscretions.  Both men rule on platforms of fighting vice. I say, if we&#8217;re going to oust Spitzer, let&#8217;s make sure Vitter&#8217;s sitting beside him in the back of the Lincoln Town Car as they both get the hell out of town.
(As an aside, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/11/the-gulf-coast-in-the-news-today/</link>
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		<title>Parting Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon in NOLA I saw a car with both Clinton and Obama bumper stickers.  Part of the Anything But McBush movement, no doubt.   
If I lived in this city I would certainly finally move up into the next pants size I am currently just below.
I passed what looked like an enormous Baptist group [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/09/parting-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Excellent!  I&#8217;m an ageist.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This post is a substitute for the Excellent academic meme I am supposed to participate in.  I don&#8217;t read enough academic blogs.) 
I&#8217;ve always known I am an ageist.  I have a tendency to look up or around me for information, not down. (I also don&#8217;t like bending down, though I think that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/09/excellent-im-an-ageist/</link>
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		<title>Getting Back to Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, after my conference ended, I called the M.A.S. and railed against the infantile on-line fighting about the Democratic primary.  More and more bloggers are equally fed up: Parachutec at Firedoglake takes us all to task for our blind idolatry, points out the obvious reality that neither Clinton nor Obama are especially progressive, and concludes with asking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/08/getting-back-to-work/</link>
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		<title>Raise your hand if you&#8217;ve ever been picked last in gym</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Or, some primary season pop psychologizing; this post is a work-in-progress)
In the wake of Clinton&#8217;s tremendous wins this week, rising up in the blogosphere are a few voices pushing back on the notion that this happened in part because she went &#8220;negative.&#8221;  (Personally, I find Obama&#8217;s subtle, dismissive vocabulary of &#8220;I guess&#8221; and &#8220;apparently&#8221; used to qualify [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/07/raise-your-hand-if-youve-ever-been-picked-last-in-gym/</link>
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		<title>Equity, Justice, Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at a conference in New Orleans covering these themes, though the words &#8220;regional,&#8221; &#8220;social&#8221; and &#8220;smart&#8221; come before them, respectively.  (Me, I&#8217;m skeptical of regionalism and smart growth.)
It&#8217;s an interesting conference in that these themes don&#8217;t necessarily go hand in hand, and it&#8217;s effectively a community development conference that&#8217;s rather glitzy: held at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/07/equity-justice-growth/</link>
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		<title>From the field: Viva Clinton!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am really sunburnt.  Even my fingers are sunburnt.  But not my eyes; I look like a raccoon from wearing shades all day in the hot San Antonio sun.  (Special thanks to the Obama supporter who lent me some sunblock, which I re-applied far too late in the day.)
But it was DAMN WORTH IT - [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grahamad.com/blog/2008/03/05/from-the-field-viva-clinton/</link>
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