http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/my_nextdoor_neighbor The Central District is rapidly gentrifying but I still live on a block with Floyd, Ms. Harris, Mother Moore's family, and the couple with a concrete lawn who rarely come outside—all black folks, all my immediate neighbors, all who've lived in these houses for four decades. This morning I knocked on Ms. Harris's door—she moved here from Texas in 1965 with her husband, a police officer who died in the 1980s, and I think she's about 85 now—and when she answered it she had tears in her eyes. "I know why you come," she said. "To tell me about the... Copyright 2008 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:32:22 -0800 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:22:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Maybe Obama will do something to keep gentrifying yuppies and light rail builders out of her neighborhood so she doesn't get forced out....

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/my_nextdoor_neighbor#c1195185 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/my_nextdoor_neighbor#c1195185 2008 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:43:06 -0800 What a wonderful post, Jen. Thanks!

]]> tomasyalba http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/my_nextdoor_neighbor#c1195245 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/my_nextdoor_neighbor#c1195245 2008 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:02:39 -0800 Maybe it's your usual lovely pov and descriptions, maybe I'm just leaky today. Mm.

]]> tamara http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/my_nextdoor_neighbor#c1195273 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/my_nextdoor_neighbor#c1195273 2008 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:10:57 -0800 ...and how does that kindly old woman feel about gay marriage?

]]> Justy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/my_nextdoor_neighbor#c1195310 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/my_nextdoor_neighbor#c1195310 2008 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:22:36 -0800