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Texas-Sized Mobility Gap

Published in: Internet News Search: dentist September 23rd, 2005

Texas-Sized Mobility Gap

HOUSTON, WE (THE POOR) HAVE A PROBLEM

If nothing else, the sister ‘canes have helped reveal a transportation gap in the American economy. In our major cities, it breaks largely along racial lines, and appears to be as much an obstacle to class elevation as the digital divide. See, if one can’t get to the better jobs, schools, health care, entertainment and sports, one is not living like the “half” that can. If the nicest theatres, supermarkets, medical and dental offices, libraries, restaurants, banks, and parks are not accessible to a population segment, that segment can be highly computer literate and still, residing under de facto Jim Crow circumstances. And come natural disaster (the proverbial h— or high water), folk cannot evacuate.

This reality calls into question any feeling that our major cities are prepared for nuclear or terrorist attack, foreign or domestic. If the poorest of the poor had cars, the gridlock out of Houston that has forced some to use sides of freeways as restrooms, would be twice as slow. Check this out:

No Way Out: Many Poor Stuck in Houston By DEBORAH HASTINGS, AP National Writer

HOUSTON - Wilma Skinner would like to scream at the officials of this city. If only they would pick up their phones. “I done called for a shelter, I done called for help. There ain’t none. No one answers,” she said, standing in blistering heat outside a check-cashing store that had just run out of its main commodity. “Everyone just says, ‘Get out, get out.’ I’ve got no way of getting out. And now I’ve got no money.”

With Hurricane Rita breathing down Houston’s neck, those with cars were stuck in gridlock trying to get out. Those like Skinner — poor, and with a broken-down car — were simply stuck, and fuming at being abandoned, they say.

“All the banks are closed and I just got off work,” said Thomas Visor, holding his sweaty paycheck as he, too, tried to get inside the store, where more than 100 people, all of them black or Hispanic, fretted in line. “This is crazy. How are you supposed to evacuate a hurricane if you don’t have money? Answer me that?”

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North American Palladium Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

Published in: Internet News Search: dentist March 7th, 2007

North American Palladium Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

MSN MoneyCentral - ... role in the automotive industry in response to growing concern for global environmental solutions, in fuel cell technology for alternative energy sources and a burgeoning jewellery market, while continuing to have widespread application in the dental ...

Minding the border on the Mexican side

Published in: Internet News Search: dentist November 18th, 2007

Minding the border on the Mexican side

Philadelphia Inquirer - He says fugitives squirm at the prospect of spending time behind bars in Mexico. "Mexican jails are real jails; we don't send you to the dentist if you have a toothache," he said. "U.S. jails are like Holiday Inns - air conditioning, cable TV, three ...