Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Mardi

New Orleans Blues Fiber Art Wall Hanging Fetish Quilt 6 ~Deepwater


Mark your calendars for Saturday, July 26th

Dirty Coast Press, The Rising Tide and the Big Easy Roller Girls
~present~

Featuring: Fleur de Tease, The Other Planets, and emcee Andrew Ward – The Reverend Pysch Ward.
One-Eyed Jack’s~Saturday July 26
Doors 8p~$10 cover


Governor Jindal Signs New Orleans Mental Health Bills~more here

CRH Medical Corporation opens center in New Orleans, Louisiana

62% of St. Bernard, New Orleans homes being rebuilt

All the money is in the trash~Library Chronicles

Majority not always in the right~Lolis Eric Elie
~H/T'nT-Portland Mercury


Removal of trees begins along 17th Street Canal Levee

Levee board losing a fourth member~Julien, who was the board's vice president, joins departing commission President David Bindewald and commissioners Robert Howson and Mark Morgan. Those three engineers notified Jindal last week that they objected to the newly adopted Act 472, which requires them to disclose detailed financial information about themselves and their spouses.

A Davenport, Iowa city worker stands vigil over a sandbag dike.
Some taxpayers are upset at the price tag they could pay to rebuild the levees.
Midwest flooding sparks debate over taller levees
~At issue is whether taxpayers already laden with high taxes and economic struggles are willing to foot the enormous bill — estimated between $4 billion and $6 billion — to protect farmers and small towns relying on aging dirt levees that weren't designed to hold back great floods.

The benefit, federal planners predict, is well below 10 cents for every dollar spent. "It's a whopping cost for what you would get out of it," said Rich Astrack, a project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that for years has been developing a flood plan for the Upper Mississippi River and opposes the spending.

Better Buffer Than Levees?

USDA Releases CRP Land in Flood Regions for Grazing

Costs, confusion keep flood insurance numbers low


NO MAP FOR YOU!
~Government officials aren't adjusting their floodplain maps, despite two "once in a lifetime" floods in 15 years,
"Just because a community has a flood bigger than the flood shown on a map doesn't mean you'll get a new map," said Bill Cappuccio, a representative of the Department of Natural Resources' Flood Plain Development Program.


Trailer Graveyards Haunt FEMA, Neighbors

They Who Never Sleep

Who Knows Where Operations Research Will Lead You?~Mike Trick

June flooding to mean pricier organic foods?
~Only California has more organic farms than Wisconsin, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service.

US Sugar Buyout May Not Help the Everglades~PEER~Will sugar buyout change restoration equation?~Daniel Cusick

Ziff Davis Enterprise Disaster Recovery Virtual Tradeshow

Finding a Disaster Recovery Solution That Won't Break the Bank

Workshops and the Holiday

The Need for Speed


Contact~H/T'n'T~Dulcinea

New Orleans Area Events: Bastille Day, Tales Of Cocktail
~Margarita Bergen


Drinking and Driving in
New Orleans~Beachbum Berry


Vanitas~Patrick Lewis

The Secret Lives of Writers’ Wives

Louis Armstrong - 2008 - New Orleans Nights [Reissued]


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