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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