~WARNING! DIXLAIMER! BAT SIGNAL!
~New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, the top Republican on the House Appropriations Water and Energy Subcommittee, said that the American people want Congress to reduce government spending but doubts there's much support for the administration's plan to cut flood protection financing "by 17 percent."
~Editilla Ho'tellas~ The Corps is pathological in its OVER ESTIMATES of Project Costs. We've seen this first-hand in the way they have continuously raised the funding estimates for projects in New Orleans. As such, we are witnessing a bigger game here of Corps Counter PR, to wit: all sides against the middle!
This is how the Corps will beat us into accepting their Option 1.
Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary of the corps, said the corps' budget is "frugal," but reflects "practical, effective and sound use of the nation's resources." What? Excuse me? Frugal?
Has this woman drunk the Corps Red Castle Cool Aid???
I am ashamed of Jo Ellen Darcy's incredible bourgeois naivete.
Oh, and thank you President Obama for coming to New Orleans, only to piss down our leg and tell us it was Katrina --while the whole time you were planning to de-fund our Flood Protection!
Mitch Landrieu meets with Obama administration officials
~New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu met Wednesday with key Obama administration officials and Louisiana congressional members, delivering a message that his city still needs federal help for continued hurricane recovery efforts.
One critical issue is the decertification of levees, which could make it harder for homeowners and businesses to obtain insurance and would limit development options.
Bodies team up to seek solutions to levee-decertification
~Beth McCormick~The Alexandria City Council on Wednesday introduced an ordinance that allows the city "to share equipment, resources, promote jointly favorable legislation, seek funding" and maintain that funding with the Rapides Parish Police Jury, city of Pineville and other governmental entities related to the levee-decertification issue.
Crews work to fix break in water-control structure~Bill Ellzey
CALL FOR THE COAST:
~Gulf Restoration Network
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~Ask the President to be a Saint for our wetlands~Big H/T'n'Ts~Humid Beings
Fargo-Moorhead leaders eye flood prevention~Bill McAuliffe
~The proposed diversion project is so big that it's likely to take on a nickname much like Boston's Big Dig, said Vijay Sethi, administrator for Clay County, which includes Moorhead.
Here come the floods
~Connected by Nature
Multiparty Pacts in Northwest Set the Stage For Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History
~Pam Radtke Russell
~The largest dam removal and river restoration project in U.S. history moved a step closer to reality last month as the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Oregon, California, PacifiCorp and about 40 other groups signed agreements that will set into motion the $200-million removal of four dams on the Klamath River and the $1-billion restoration of the Klamath Basin.
Space Cadet Vitter Reporting for Vision Duty!~Channels Space Barbie advise from his 12 year old daughters!
~When not voting against jobs for Louisianans, Senator David Vitter (R-Pamp) likes to jump down the Rabbit Hole with his twin daughters: "I believe this budget and the vision it represents would end our human space flight program as we know it and would surrender for our lifetime and perhaps forever our world leadership in this area and in so doing would lose all the enormous benefits of the technological advantage that goes with it," said Vitter, the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee's Science and Space Subcommittee. "You don't accomplish great things without a clearly defined mission, and this budget has no clearly defined mission," said Vitter, noting that his own 12-year-old twins, Lise and Airey, would rate the president's space priorities as "so last week."
~In response, NASA Administrator and 4-Real-Time Shuttle Missions Veteran ASTRONAUT, Charles Bolden Jr., said that the Bush administration's plan to return astronauts to the moon might have sounded visionary but had been under-financed to the point of making the objective meaningless.
"A vision without resources is a hallucination," Bolden told Vitty. "Prior to 2010, we had a hallucinatory budget."
Prostitutes of New Orleans
Slabbed Updates the Jefferson Parish front, plays Hide'n'Seek with Liberty Mutual ~And still finds time to yank the diapers off Baby Bushie's Boyz!
~Editilla Crow'tellas~Hot tip to stay tuned to slabbed for more on Lawyers, Puns and Money.
EPA orders Louisiana Land Trust, contractor to stop polluting in New Orleans,
St. Bernard Parish
~Mark Schleifstein
DA and Police Processing Drug Cases Faster
~David Winkler-Schmit
Will any NOPD veteran have the credibility to lead?
~Eli Ackerman, The Lens
New Orleans City Charter changes proposed~Bruce Eggler
Louisiana Government and Politics: Come On Man
~Jim Brown
The Death and Gentrification of Great American Cities ~Planetizen~Sharon Zukin's new book takes a different look at the urbanity championed in Jane Jacobs' seminal book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities", arguing that gentrification is tearing up the authenticity of places.
Haiti doesn't need your God
~Shauna Blackmon
Danny & Clyde's Fights Down Economy~Mehgan Belanger
Big Tobacco and the Historians
~Jon Wiener
LA Times Book Prize includes Two New Awards
~EPL Off the Shelf
Kate Hudson, Kathy Bates, Whoopi Goldberg in N.O.
~Stacy Plaisance
Keeping New Orleans
New Orleans~offBEAT
2010 Jazz Fest Congo Square poster released~Kevin Allman
~“Say Uncle” — an image of the inimitable Uncle Lionel Batiste of the Tremé Brass Band, painted by Terrance Osborne.Trombone Shorty to release new album "Backatown" 4/20
~The Urban Music Scene
Reunion gives respect, museum to swamp pop~Herman Fuselier
Galactic showcases the many facets of the New Orleans sound on stage and on a new disc
~Andrew Gilbert
Georgia man walkin' to New Orleans benefits Fats Domino's old neighborhood~R.A. Vargas
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