Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Mardi ~Fire Mayor Ray Nagin! ~Recall Ray!

Live Piracy Map 2008

$5 billion in federal hurricane aid to La. unspent
~Elinda DesLatte


Army Corps of Engineers connected to banned firms getting new U.S. building contracts in Iraq ~Matt Kelley
~A firm suspended from U.S. government contracts for allegedly bribing Army officers was awarded a new contract in Iraq two days after the suspension was imposed, government investigators found. The Pentagon paid the suspended company more than $1 million under the new contract.

Corruption May Have Helped Undermine City Levees
~November 3, 2005 LA Times.
~Editilla Can't Get No Satisfaction~
We would like to remind everyone of the Corps of Engineers' culture of corruption, and 3 people I think they would like to see discredited, in the run-up to the MRGO Lawsuit:
1) Dr. Raymond Seed~These levees should have been expected to perform adequately if they had been designed and constructed properly,”
2) Robert G. Bea, a civil engineering professor at Berkeley, expert witness and a member of Seed’s investigating team.
3) Ivor van Heerden, a Louisiana State University geologist headed a third inquiry, for the state of Louisiana.

Hearing scheduled on levee tie-in~Matt Scallan

Liprap's Lament - The Line
~On the one hand, I want to yell my ever-ready mantra at Peter Schjeldahl concerning his opining on Prospect .1:
"We don't care how they do it in New York!!!!"
However, he does raise some valid points about how the atmosphere of New Orleans circa 8-29 and three years afterwards has affected the participating artists

New Orleans East
and the Master Plan
~We Could Be Famous


Starting to think I voted for the wrong guy ~Library Chronicles

Insurance costs keep Miss. Habitat houses locked
~Shelia Byrd


Obama Enlists Supporters in Wildfire Relief~Matthew Delong

Ticket requests swamp Landrieu
~With the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama coming up on Jan. 20, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is being asked to watch it with 12,000 of her closest friends.

Could be 2009 before panel hears Klan death case
~Kevin McGill


Carville the class clown to get serious at Tulane~John Pope

Pennsylvania grand jury looking at how GOP used New Orleans demographer's work
~David Hammer


California bent on rebuilding despite wildfire risk
~Mary Milliken


Professor gets grant for
New Orleans restoration
~Richard Oxley


Registration Begins for 2009 WebEOC User Conference
~Emergency Managers Nationwide Convening in San Diego Show "The Power of Community"

Two more booked in alligator thefts

Mixed year for La citrus growers

1851 Magnetic Society of New Orleans~Green Lantern Press

Indian Hurricane Katrina Relief Workers Were Treated Like Slaves ~Barry Seward

Five Reasons to Go Native


American Indian Pow-Wow offers food, dance and heritage in Gonzales, La. ~Jon Donely

Po'Boy Preservation Festival This Weekend in New Orleans ~Serious Eats

A Beautiful Moon
in New Orleans~Asparagus Thin


Houston artist's sculpture hops over to New Orleans

gentrification
~Red Star Perspective

~"I’m in New Orleans for a meeting of non-profit recovery advocates. Yesterday, I spent about 45 minutes talking to a local photographer, Christopher Porche-West, about the changes in the city since Hurricane Katrina and his particular challenges rebuilding his life."

Radio documentary about Jonathan Freilich is as wide-ranging as guitarist's career ~Dave Walker

The Radiators
~Music for Humans

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