August 2007

Day 729: Rising Tide II – Personal Lessons Learned

August 27, 2007

“If what you did yesterday still seems big today, your goals for tomorrow aren’t big enough.” — Fu Yu Ling, ca. 900 B.C. Thanks to everyone for coming to help us mark the second anniversary of this catastrophe, which continues through today. Most of my pictures from the conference are at the Rising Tide Conference [...]

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Day 727: “New Thames Barrier Could Be Built”

August 26, 2007

During yesterday’s Rising Tide 2 talk entitled In Levees We Trust, our resident civil engineer Tim Ruppert brought up two key examples of national pride in barriers to flooding – the flood barrier on the River Thames in London and the system of dikes that protects 60% of the Netherlands from being inundated by surge [...]

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Day 726: Panel – The Way We Write Now

August 25, 2007

Do New Orleanian authors write differently now than they did before the storm and flood? I’d like to think that the style remains the same and the stories a mixture of new and old. What would this ongoing incident do to that which a writer sources from? Sam Jasper writes from more of an activist [...]

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Day 726: Dave Zirin Can Come Back Any Time

August 25, 2007

Two salient points: 1. Stadium construction is not a substitute for urban policy. 2. Municipalization of sports teams is how it should be, as in the case of the Green Bay Packers (w00t!). “They’re not the Steinbrenner Yankees, they’re the New York Yankees.” It would be easy for New Orleans’s football team to be the [...]

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Day 726: Liveblogging Repository

August 25, 2007

I will post this morning’s notes (which I took on old-fashioned paper with an old-fashioned pen) later this afternoon, cross my heart – in fact, I will update this post. Until then, read these folks. Politics Panel – Ray in New Orleans: Sucky liveblogging RTII Levees & Pumps Session – Mark Folse at the Rising [...]

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Day 726: Liveblogging From Rising Tide II

August 25, 2007

Sorry if it took until almost 2 in the afternoon to get this conference live-blogged for you from the “inimitable” Maitri perspective, but I had to sacrifice my computer for the morning series of talks, especially Tim Ruppert’s great talk on levee protection and Matt McBride’s webcast on the status of our pumps from out [...]

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Day 725: CNBC Squawk On The Street

August 24, 2007

Did anyone catch the New Orleans business segment on CNBC’s Squawk On the Street show this morning? I caught bits and pieces of the hosts talking with Jimmy Delery and Kim Quillen of the TP, as well as one other woman whose name escapes me. They discussed problems associated with the rebuilding of affordable housing [...]

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Day 724: Headless Chicken Talks Civic Blogging

August 23, 2007

Beginning 5pm today, a fowl sans cabesa is exactly what I will be what with Rising Tide preparation and other work to be taken care of ahead of the weekend. Watch for liveblogging from the conference both here and on the Rising Tide blog, with audio and video to be added as soon as bloggerly [...]

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Day 723: On This Day In 1639

August 22, 2007

From Wikipedia: Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers. Happy 368th birthday to the city of my people, though the circumstances of your origin are quite dubious. Also, on August 22nd of 1973, Richard Nixon named Henry Kissinger the Secretary of State. [...]

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Day 723: Poor Black Homelessness In Post-K/Flood New Orleans

August 22, 2007

This article in The Jewish Daily Forward* makes a more straightforward connection between being black and post-Katrina/Flood homelessness. Jeffrey would argue that it’s not race but class, and I would also include the elderly. … One of the reasons for [the slow rebuilding of New Orleans] is the failure to rebuild the 77,000 destroyed rental units that once housed a large number of [...]

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