Two blocks away from the 5-mile-long Industrial Canal that links Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River, a cluster of new, candy-colored homes—lemon yellow, tangerine, berry blue—on 8-foot stilts rises up from narrow grassy lots, adorning the scarred landscape like jewels in ash.

I was supposed to do work, but I frittered around all afternoon.

Not only were there outraged verbal protests when the Hull-Kings Cross through portions were cut, … traffic seriously declined.

… 13 local and foreign business chambers asked the president to veto the security of tenure bill since it is redundant as there are previously approved laws that already protects workers from 'endo' (end of contract scheme), …