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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