Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Mardi

Major coastal restoration financing starts, slowly, in Barack Obama's 2011 budget plan~Mark Schleifstein

Obama’s budget has $35 million for state’s coast~Nickey Buskey

Teche-VermilionWater District funds at issue
~Amanda McElfresh


What Will Happen to Charity Hospital?~Nola Mayor Watch
Better. Sooner. Cheaper. Why can't we have This Hospital?

*I was here, 8/29/05. Charity held The Line, as she has always.
When all around had lost their minds, Charity Held The Line.
This city was in ruins, yet Charity Held The Line. Truth.
You don't throw away Truth. And you don't sell your Soul, because we need both before anything else when civilization breaks down. To dismiss this as merely an "emotional view of a complex situation", to me, misunderestimates the difference between Philosophy and Strategy, Business and Survivability.

Mixed Messages
~David Winkler-Schmit

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An Inspector General's report about the propriety of city contracts sparks a controversy over how and when the office should act and advise

Too big for Big Bad Jim? ~Library Chronicles

On Hannity, Serial Tapist James O'Keefe repeats false suggestion that Landrieu took $300 million bribe ~Media Matters

President Barack Obama's budget plan could take toll on Michoud Assembly Facility jobs
~Bruce Alpert


Shops can sell 'Who Dat' shirts

Peyton Manning must lay down ~NOLAFemmes

Justice can wait part deux: Local Magistrate releases inmate because he had tickets to the NFC Championship ~slabbed

A shameless pitch for a party way down yonder in New Orleans
~Debra-Lynn B. Hook


February Prickly Pear, acrylic/canvas, 30 x 40"~PWALLY

Earl A. Barthé, Master of Plaster, Dies at 87

Take a hike: He's "a little crazy" and walking to New Orleans

Tom Waits, Jim James, Andrew Bird Celebrate New Orleans Music~Jeffrey Hyatt

Tony Bennett Paints The 2010 New Orleans Jazz Festival Poster
~This year, the singer who paints under his family name Benedetto, will participate as the official visual artist of the Festival by painting the image to be displayed on the Festival's annual poster.
Bennett's portrait of his friend and colleague, the late Louis Prima will be reproduced as the 2010 New Orleans Jazz Festival poster in honor of the centennial anniversary of Prima's birth, a New Orleans native, which is celebrated in December of this year. ~Click here to view poster.

Mo'fo Da'Funkiest week in Nola History...today Glory Grows!

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