Fighting words

In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll say right now that while I am not in the habit of plugging my friends’ websites (if my memory serves me correctly, in […]

October 08: Urban Spacious

Fifty feet behind the home of Will Kerner and Catherine Dee are busy railroad tracks. Across the tracks lies an industrial area. In the other three directions, the property is […]

October 08: The long view

It’s like Cab Calloway says to Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi near the beginning of The Blues Brothers: “Boys, times are bad.” Local home values are mostly going down. Fannie […]

October 08: Eye of the storm

There was a time when the Morrises felt comfortable sending their 15-year-old son from their home on Blueberry Road on his bike down Route 20. But that was more than […]

October 08: All together now

It’s not your usual student housing. That dorm feeling—hard surfaces, the smells of bleach and beer—seems very far away from the cosy Jefferson Park Avenue house where six people, most […]