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Day 585: Development – The End Of New Orleans?

April 5, 2007

This past week, NPR’s Morning Edition has hosted a series called The Ganges: A Journey Into India. Philip Reeves travels from the headwaters of the mighty river Ganga in the north of India to its confluence with the Bay of Bengal to the southeast. While it certainly isn’t a geographic trip into the nation, Reeves [...]

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Day 506: New Orleans Public Housing

January 16, 2007

In Will It Be Black Or White?, the Voices of New Orleans asks, “Does New Orleans need to be predominantly black to be New Orleans?”  What an interesting question.  In the same post, they quote housing activist Endesha Juakali: “We need the chocolate back in the vanilla! … It will never be the same in [...]

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Day 505: Remember New Orleans?

January 15, 2007

As an NFC North girl, I wish the Saints only the best of luck against the twelfth man in Chicago – Bears fans are a mean lot (this is good manners to them). And the blessed, thin-blooded boys won’t know what cold means until they hit Lake Michigan. While you pray for a good NFC [...]

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Day 446: Re-Look-See

November 17, 2006

Lately, I’ve taken to seriously considering Citizen Revolution. By that, I don’t mean anything on the order of pitchforks, attack ladders, Mao Tse Tung or Castro, but a very studious and sane re-examination of our constitution and founding documents on the part of a well-educated and conscious citizenry. Loki reminded me of Becky Houtman’s latest [...]

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Day 441: A Good Start To A Slow Weekend

November 12, 2006

Most funny/sad vignette heard on Thursday evening – Karen Gadbois arrived at Elizabeth’s on a wind where Laureen Lentz and I awaited her. “You want to hear something great? I was at a planning meeting, and this guy walks up to me, offers his name, credentials and who he’s with and asks who I am. [...]

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Day 431: Rough Weather On The North Sea

November 2, 2006

The continuing New Orleans planning debacle and (local and national) pre-election poo-flinging make me want to move some place civilized like Holland.  Of course, the news came this morning that the Baltic is in a tizzy because of Hurricane Britta and that parts of the German coast are flooding. She may not have been a Katrina [...]

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Day 417: Bill Moyers On The Internet

October 20, 2006

My favorite Bill Moyers quote has always been, “Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.” PBS and Mr. Moyers recently hosted a three-part series that investigates a triumvirate of issues of growing [...]

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Day 397: O Isis Und Osiris!

September 29, 2006

Bless German classics, Deutsche Grammophon and Karl Böhm – I’d forgotten how much I adore Die Zauberflöte and why it is my favorite opera of all time. Along with its great overture and arias (listen to Der Hölle Rache Kocht In Meinem Herzen and report back on the goosebumps), this final large production of Mozart’s [...]

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September 15, 2006

September 14, 2006 – Day 100 + … whatever. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work,” said Peter Drucker. It’s been 381 days since Katrina; we shouldn’t have to wait another four months to witness the implementation of the resuscitated BNOB plan, which was drafted soon after Katrina. Let’s get [...]

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Day 368: Why Don’t You Quietly Rebuild And Get On With Your Lives?

August 31, 2006

August 29th has come and gone, and the token visit by Arbusto and camera crews with it.  The nation has poured out a little liquor for L’Isle d’Orleans and returns to its business.  Just like people died the city over last August 31st, the third battle of New Orleans continues today.  We still need a rebuilding plan, disaster insurance relief, [...]

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