Louisiana Recovery Authority: Federal grant money can't go to Rapides levee repairs
~Mike Hasten

Louisiana Recovery Authority expects to fold with millions unspent~David Hammer

Levee Confusion Indicative of CenLa’s Greatest Developmental Hurdle ~CenLamar

Louisiana's birds threatened by climate change, report says
~Mark Schleifstein
~Climate change poses a threat to most U.S. bird species, including many that live and visit Louisiana's rapidly disappearing coastline, according to a new report released Thursday by ornithologists with university research laboratories, federal agencies and environmental groups.
"The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change" says the effects of climate change over the next century will vary across the United States and the world, causing a variety of threats to bird species that could foreshadow similar threats to humans.

Have You Registered Yet?

In Xynthia’s Wake, Increased Awareness of the Link between Windstorm Vulnerability and Wetland Loss~Seyi Fayanju

What caused the Federal Flood of New Orleans during Katrina?

Welcome to Haskoning Inc. Dutch Engineers active in the Flood Protection of New Orleans

Lesson for SA in New Orleans
~Peter Vale~If Mardi Gras dates back to ancient times, the legacy of the Super Bowl (and the triumph) was more recent – this was the first time in 43-years that the Saints had emerged as national football champions. But, as importantly perhaps, the latter has become the bellwether for the recovery of a city – and, indeed, a society, that almost drowned in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina revealed the devastating effect of the lack of public expenditure on the infrastructure of a single city.
New Orleans is no run-of-the-mill American city.
But what is the link to South Africa? Poll numbers showed that the new mayor was elected by 70-odd per cent of white voters and by 63-percent of the city’s black voters. Quite a remarkable outcome given that the city, historically, has voted along racial lines. Dissatisfaction with efforts to rebuild after Katrina may explain some of this, of course. And if it does, it suggests that in New Orleans certainly the ability to get the job done – “to deliver”, as we say in this country – may have been a decisive factor in the election.
But what may matter even more – in both New Orleans and here – is the growing recognition that history, culture, cuisine and music – draws embattled communities closer than the false dawns promised by politicians.

Applying Hurricane Katrina's lessons to help post-quake Haiti
~Facing South
~The project was launched by Jacques Morial, co-director of the Louisiana Justice Institute, and Charles Allen III, director of New Orleans' Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development and chair of that city's Holy Cross Neighborhood Association.

Understanding the Revolver
~Anmerican Zombie

Contractor being paid for work done by city employees
~Ariella Cohen, The Lens

New Orleans City Council reform-minded as terms end
~Bruce Eggler

Deep and Wide, there’s a fountain (of information) flowing…New subpoenas issued in Jefferson Parish ~slabbed

Harrington has eye on
New Orleans post
~St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington is at the top of a list of contenders for the New Orleans police chief job, a New Orleans television station reported Thursday. Harrington said earlier Thursday that he is considering applying for the job.

Poverty and tyranny central to immoral practice of mountain destruction, water and air poisoning~Robert F. Kenndy Jr.
~Hat Tweet~Facing South

KS church plans protest of LA high school play ~WAFB
~Hat Tweet~ Gambit

List of local St. Joseph's altars

St. Patrick's Day Parades!
~Gambit

AAOS: Cementless Hips Better for Younger Patients~Cementless total hip replacements appear to have greater longevity than cemented implants in younger patients, a Finnish study showed. Cementless cups, stems, and combinations had superior 15-year survival from aseptic loosening than cemented hip replacements, Keijo Makela, MD, of Turku University Hospital, reported at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting here.
~Editilla Notellas~How could we pass on a Lede like that?

EBR hosts bloggers meeting
~Gary Perilloux

Flood survivor gets ISU help
~James Pusey
~After a coincidental meeting last fall in New Orleans, landscape architecture students at Iowa State University are doing their part to make a Flood survivor’s dreams a reality.

Eventbrite to Power The Summer’s Most Spirited Event, Tales of the Cocktail

Seasoning can keep name
~“Punch Ya Daddy” seasoning can keep its name but has to change its packaging to avoid confusion with spice rival “Slap Ya Mama,” a federal judge ruled this week.
~Just like Who'dat? say they gonna Slap My Mama?

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Joseph Mumfre, Axeman from New Orleans~Crime Chronics
~There are murders in crime history that still remain unsolved. The case of Joseph Mumfre, Axeman from New Orleans is one.

Guest Blogger D. B. Grady on Southern Literature
~Beyond Acadia

John Buffalo Mailer Talks New Orleans Through The Eyes Of Strippers (Part I)~Mark Corker

Odd Words
~Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans

Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac, Queens "Recluse" ~Gothamist

The Spotted Cat in New Orleans
~Editilla Mo'tellas~We stumbled onto Miki online for obvious reasons. She has returned home to Spain. But we have a Lot of fans in Spain too, so y'all keep your Eye peeled for her work as we hang it here on Your New Orleans Ladder.
We gots so many friend'0'rillas All Over The World now and they Love New Orleans. We like to call it Stitch'hiking the Net.
Alas Editilla wonders if today's Cat is the same Cat that'd sooner take my dog Flora through the door than me most days.
And we wonda who gives a shit really.
The Vipers still play there on Frenchman.
I have sat in that very chair in the painting, on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, feeling very much like a Suzanne Saunders painting that used to grace that wall... and played my ass off --to an empty room! But only to look outside, and see them clapping from the sidewalk. It's just toooo Hot in New Orleans sometimes!

Musicians Clinic celebrates Wardelle Quezergue with a diabetic-friendly menu on his 80th~Judy Walker

Sal Nunziato: Maurice Brown: His New CD “the Cycle of Love” and How Jazz Is Stuck

Smokey Johnson:
Under The Funkie Moon
~Home of the Groove

New Orleans Sissy Bounce:
Rap Goes Drag (Vanity Fair)
~Humid Beings

Mayer Hawthorne brings his retro soul and funky style to New Orleans~NewOrleans.com

A week's worth of good music starting Friday
~Allison Fensterstock

Spring 2010 Membership Drive Photo Highlights~WWOZ