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August 29th, 2011: Six Years

August 29, 2011

Today’s New Orleans Times Picayune A new Army Corps of Engineers rating system for the nation’s levees is about to deliver a near-failing grade to New Orleans area dikes, despite the internationally acclaimed $10 billion effort to rebuild the system in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, corps officials have confirmed. As Ray drove us through [...]

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Narratives a.k.a. Of Happy Hive Minds And Prevailing Versions Of History

September 3, 2010

It appears America up and exploded in these past few weeks. Specifically in the last few days. But It’s All Under Control. As you were. On August 22nd, a 400-person riot broke out in the peaceful, hippie-beatnik town of Ft. Collins, Colorado. Irony: It happened right after Earth, Wind & Fire performed at something called [...]

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Checking In

September 1, 2010

This blog post from the second segment of my two-week, four-city tour. New Orleans – Colorado – Columbus – Akron – home. America, f*** yeah! The fifth annual Rising Tide conference was a great success as was the A Howling In The Wires book launch. There are posts coming on the experiences of moderating the [...]

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Five Years

August 23, 2010

Last night, D and I watched CNN’s New Orleans Rising special on rebuilding in the historically-black Pontchartrain Park neighborhood of New Orleans. So many stories. So many lives. Back in the 1950s and 60s, these black families built their lives and educated their children in the shadow of overt segregation. Cut to the 2000s – [...]

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Rising Tide Conference 5

August 5, 2010

It has indeed been almost five years since The Storm. The fifth annual Rising Tide conference on the recovery and future of New Orleans will take place on Saturday, August 28th at the Howlin Wolf in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mac McClelland, human rights reporter for Mother Jones and bad smartass or is it smart badass, [...]

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Treme

April 9, 2010

The creators of Homicide, The Corner, and The Wire are at it again, this time in a city not wholly unfamiliar to readers of this blog: New Orleans.  Treme premieres on HBO this Sunday at 10PM Eastern. David Simon fans everywhere are working themselves into a tizzy, but keep in mind this isn’t The Wire: New Orleans [...]

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A List Of Lists

December 28, 2009

Lizzy Caston and I were to write a mode d’emploi for air travel in this day and age of the ever-orange threat advisory.  A sample: Lady, please do your best not to wear four-inch-heeled slouch boots and every metal ring and bracelet in your collection before entering airport security.  The grimace on your face as [...]

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Katrina Negligence Ruling Could Cost Feds

November 19, 2009

Woke up today to this bit of news. HammHawk is right. This could be big. [U.S. District Judge Stanwood] Duval sided with six residents and one business who argued the Army Corps’ shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish. He [...]

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Barack Obama In New Orleans Today

October 15, 2009

How far we have come from 2005. Have we? The picture at top right was taken earlier this year. The fate of Charity hospital is still unknown. New Orleans is still at risk of flooding because of inadequate levees. How far we have come from 2005. Our first desi president. Keeping the harmony. Our Nobel-prize-winning [...]

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August 29th 2005

August 29, 2009

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