Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Mercredi

Wow! What a Turnout!
~SaveCharityHospital.com

Can you believe it?
Twelve hundred people out
in the streets parading and protesting for the rights of Lower Mid-City residents and for the gutting and rebuilding of Charity Hospital. It was an inspiring sight to see and to experience, and we'd like to thank everyone who attended from the bottom of our hearts for their support.
~Photo:

Corps' plans to extract clay has too many holes, local leaders say
~Bigad Shaban

~Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser said following Hurricane Katrina, the corps dug more than 60 pits as an emergency maneuver to find the clay needed to harden the levee system, but he said the corps never filled the ditches back up.
"And to leave all those holes in the parish, takes that land out of commerce, takes it out of development and if we continue to allow that to happen we're going to have levees protecting nothing,” said Nungesser.

Video on Dutch Flood Protection rockets to top of YouTube charts

Army Corps of Engineers says it may spend $1 billion to restore wetlands damaged by levee work
~Mark Schleifstein


Processors go on defense, work congressional delegation
~Jeremy Alford


BP makes "giant" discovery in Gulf of Mexico

Scoping Meetings Discuss Future of Missouri River Ecosystem~James E. Ducey

City blight agency faces money, legal challenges~Deon Roberts

Zurik leaving WWL; contract negotiations broke down, both parties say ~Kevin Allman
~More from Adrastos


Will Child-Governor Jindal Ride The NO To BR Rail?
~Stephen Sabludowsky


Maddow Interviews Tom Ridge About Iraq Intelligence, Hurricane Katrina, Politicized Threat Levels

Four Years Later, Challenges Remain~Nathan Rothstein

National Service Agency Opens AmeriCorps NCCC Campus in Vicksburg

Fantasia ready to pitch in for Katrina survivors

New Orleans Roast Now Available at Rouses


Coffee with chicory-Stand Up!
~New Orleans Can Thrive


Shrimp, zydeco to be celebrated this weekend

Bird’s eye view~Cody Daigle

Project 30-90’s shrinking footprint~Noah Bonaparte Pais

Jason Berry expands on his
New Orleans music history primer in a reissue of 'Up from the Cradle of Jazz'
~Susan Larson

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