October 2005

Day 47: Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Garden District Cleanup; Setbacks & Moves Forward

October 14, 2005

Preservation Hall Jazz Band On The Road: Not all tourists and music-lovers get a chance to squeeze into the spartan space at 726 St. Peter St. to catch a glimpse of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, but they can now – the band is on the road with everything they have left. Recovering from 2.5 [...]

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Day 46: More New Orleans Sites; Life Goes On With Me

October 13, 2005

More New Orleans Websites: Jamie Amdal is back in business at her job as realtor at the Prudential Gardner Garden District office (thanks, Kavita!). I haven’t yet formulated my personal stance on the present and future of realty in New Orleans during what Jamie calls the “current post-Katrina craze.” However, our city does need local [...]

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Day 45: Floodwater Tests – The Good, The Bad & The EPA

October 12, 2005

NOLA Tests The Waters: A study conducted by LSU’s Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute concludes that the water that flooded Mid-City and Lakeview was mostly harmless. According to John Pardue, the study lead, the samples “contained chemical and biological contaminants in levels very similar to water from a typical rainstorm.” Pardue warns, however, that the [...]

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Day 44: Nagin’s Casino Plan Not Supported By Blanco; Julie And Her Miocene Vertebrates On LPB

October 11, 2005

Blanco Disses Nagin’s Casino Plan: Louisiana governor, Kathleen Blanco, distanced herself from New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s plan to transform downtown’s key hotels into gambling centers for the revitalization of the city. Citing the need for individual and business tax credits and “a stronger public education system to stimulate growth and reconstruction in New Orleans,” [...]

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Day 43: Return To New Orleans 2, October 7-9, 2005

October 10, 2005

Contrary to circulating rumors, VatulBlog did not perish over the weekend due to a heart attack of tragic proportions. In fact, the blog was so alive that it went on a fact-gathering mission in New Orleans at the end of Week 6. Yes, ladies and gents, this was my first weekend in 1.5 months spent [...]

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Day 40 AM: Rebirth Brass Band Plays The Engine Room In Houston Tonight

October 7, 2005

Rebirth In Houston: (thanks, Komi and Kelda!) New Orleans’ own Rebirth Brass Band is on tour in Texas and will perform at The Engine Room in downtown Houston this Friday night. Kelda says, “Though the Engine Room advertises the show starting at 8, Rebirth’s site says they’ll be playing at 10:00 pm, and being that [...]

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Day 39 PM: Some New Orleans Safe To Drink; Nagin Economic Townhall

October 6, 2005

Some NO Water Safe To Drink: nola.com says that tap water in New Orleans west of the Industrial Canal has been declared potable. “The Department of Health and Hospitals, the official regulatory agency for the State of Louisiana, certified the water quality, the mayor’s office said.” This means all water in a small sliver of [...]

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Day 39 AM: FEMA Wants Shelter Residents To Go Home; Charity & University Hospitals Condemned; Tax Relief Proposal; FoodFoodFood; The Politics Of Failure

October 6, 2005

FEMA To Hurricane Victims: “Go Home!”: FEMA acting chief, R. David Paulison, recently suggested to a Senate panel that the victims of Hurricane Katrina must be urged to return home. The main reason appears to be that many remain in shelters despite housing availability (temporary or permanent) back home. … hundreds of thousands of hurricane [...]

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Day 37: Baylor Hosts Tulane Medical School; New Orleans Movers & Shakers

October 4, 2005

Studying To Be A Doctor In Exile: The same week some of us begin to work in Houston, Tulane Medical School students start the first day of classes at Baylor College of Medicine. The fear was that [the hurricane] could even cause the school’s extinction, so uncertain was Tulane’s future in the days after Katrina [...]

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Day 36 Early PM: Back To Work; The Metrobloggers Speak

October 3, 2005

First Day Back At Work: How strange it is to see everyone again with whom I worked in New Orleans up until five weeks ago. It’s like reuniting with friends after the winter holidays, except that instead of asking your buddies what they got for Christmas, the questions are minor variations on “Is your family [...]

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