Day 732: Shooting At 1507 Magazine St.
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under crime, new orleans | 13 Comments
[Update: After a small email flurry, Councilmember Stacy Head has offered to convene a Lower Garden District meeting “at which time we can discuss a variety of quality of life issues affecting the area.” Councilmember Fielkow (fellow Wisconsin alum) has promised to attend as well.]
Arrived home at 5:45PM to hear four crystal-clear gun shots […]
Day 732: Grab Bag
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under books, computing & internet, education, global, music, project gutenberg, science & technology | 1 Comment
Who Killed Beethoven? - Dun dun dun duuuuuuun …
Examiners in the UK are asked to “make science easier” - Unintelligent design crosses the pond, thus making us not the only G7 nation with low expectations of our kids. Or as England’s equivalent of the DoE(dumacation) responds,”Deliberately increasing the proportion of easier questions is a clear example […]
Day 732: An Inkling Of Hope
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under family & friends, government, new orleans, recovery | 3 Comments
brimful, who lives all the way in California, gets it. I still have a tiny bit of hope for America, as long as our national dialogue soon refocuses on how to make America better.
It is bad enough that the handling of Katrina was so deplorable. What’s far worse is the notion that the nation grew […]
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under blurbs, government, new orleans, recovery | Leave a Comment
NOLA Recovery Czar, Ed Blakely, is skewered by locals and a reporter in this CNN’s Keeping Them Honest segment. Ha! When the cameras and fabu reporter hair are far away, however, will this media exercise in calling his “penchant for phony bullshit” have prompted Blakely to do his promised job?
Read More..>>Day 732: Second Anniversary Media Roundup
Posted on August 30, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, federal flood, government, louisiana, media, new orleans, recovery | 1 Comment
Jeffrey Buchanan of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial - Bush Administration Misleads On Gulf Coast Rebuilding - “Despite the Bush Administration declaring to have done its job by sending the ‘big check’, a purported $116 billion, for rebuilding Gulf Coast communities, the article finds less then $35 billion available for rebuilding. Less then 42% of […]
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Posted on August 29, 2007 - Filed Under federal flood, katrina, louisiana, new orleans | Leave a Comment
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Day 730: The Hope For New Orleans
Posted on August 28, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, education, government, new orleans, pictures, recovery | 2 Comments
When scrutinizing this area’s “screwed up and self-defeating political culture,” remember that the worst offenders are the ones who steal what you see in the above picture away from our children. If for nothing else, fight for New Orleans’s young, America’s young. Please don’t throw our babies out with the floodwater.
“Don’t ever get over the […]
Day 730: We Are Here
Posted on August 28, 2007 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans | 2 Comments
Nostalgia is not something I indulge in much because a) I’m not one to romanticize the past and b) my past was all about getting to the future. Every once in a long while, something will remind me of a good time I enjoyed while a child or college student, but it was mostly an […]
Read More..>>Day 730: “It’s A National Obligation”
Posted on August 28, 2007 - Filed Under government, new orleans, recovery | 1 Comment
Two years after the storm/flood/disaster began, Douglas Brinkley lambasts the Bush administration and City officials for speaking out of both sides of their mouths regarding the recovery of New Orleans. Brinkley speaks sense, but it is still too early in the game for this level of final analysis, or such a tone of finality, on New […]
Read More..>>Day 729: Rising Tide II - Kudos From New York
Posted on August 27, 2007 - Filed Under new orleans, rising tide conference | 3 Comments
I’d like to take this moment to let everyone know that the previous post was my own critical view of myself and our group as bloggers and activists, and what more the NOLA bloggers can stand to accomplish in the way of civic activism. It is my blog after all, and I think about what I want […]
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