Saturday, March 13, 2010

Coastal official says federal interest in restoration improving
~Nikki Buskey


Coastal policy paper more travel guide than road map ~LaCoastPost

Drainage Master Plan Scope of Services Reformatted
~Watershed NOLA


Water Council Inc on 2011 Civil Works Budget ~SNAME

~8 Color Silkscreen 16"X14.5", Courtesy James Cohan Gallery.
~In a brand-new Limited Edition to benefit Prospector New Orleans, acclaimed NY artist Fred Tomaselli has taken as his starting point one of the most harrowing post-Katrina media images. On the front page of the New York Times for Wednesday, August 31, 2005, readers saw the first printed images of the city engulfed by waters, and Tomaselli has astutely captured the sense of unreality and dislocation still associated with this image in the popular imagination.
A full day following the hurricane’s pounding of the region, and when most of the world (including New Orleans itself) believed the city had been spared the worst, the levee system had unexpectedly failed in multiple locations, rapidly submerging eighty percent of the city in toxic waters for nearly three full weeks.
~Art Knowledge News

Jindal gives So. Lafourche Levee District nearly $20M
~Tri-Parish Times


Fargo officials in full flood-fighting mode

Feds say Iowa misspent $10.5M in flood aid

Lakefront still dark at night - more than 4 years after storm

Katrina and the Fleecing of NOLA - 5 Years On...
~On Transmigration


Journey to the Center of the Earth ~Matthew Phillips
~From the window of a helicopter 1,500 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, oil platforms look like Tinkertoys in a swimming pool. Dozens dot the horizon stretching south from New Orleans and continuing out as the water deepens and turns a darker blue. Then, about 50 miles offshore, the platforms stop, and for the next hundred miles there's nothing.
This is the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, where the ocean floor is 8,000 feet down and covered in a heavy layer of muck. Below that is an ancient salt bed several miles thick, and hidden under that, trapped tens of thousands of feet down, there's oil—billions and billions of barrels of it. And it's all in U.S. waters.


New Orleans Hotel Offers To Host Canceled MS Prom
~Meanwhile, New Orleans hotel owner Sean Cummings is offering to take the students to New Orleans by bus, and host a free prom at one of his properties.

Coming up in this week’s Gambit: Happy St. Pat’s and St. Joseph’s Days

Fountainbleau State Park Links ~Thanks Katrina~These links are left for a person traveling thru our area interested about Fountainbleau State Park and Northlake Nature Center

Rachel Alexandra returns to racing today in New Orleans Ladies~Bob Fortus

See what's happening in Terrebonne, Lafourche

The Jazz Vipers in New Orleans
~Editilla Hotellas~Miki posted this after we hung them on da'Ladda yesterday! That guy, Bruce, he keeps stalkin'us.

New Orleans Jazz Fest Gala Honoring Dr. John Benefits Afterschool Music Program

Foburg Festival's first night impresses with quality, diversity of music~NewOrleans.com

Rockie Charles, the 'President of Soul,' dies at age 67

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