~Flambeaux wait for the Krewe of Hermes parade on Magazine and Napoleon Ave. in New Orleans, Louisiana, Friday, February 17, 2012. Photo: Matthew Hinton~Krewe of Iris~RESCHEDULED February 19, 2012/10:00 a.m.
~ Krewe of Tucks~RESCHEDULED February 20, 2012/3:00 p.m.
~Krewe of Endymion~Mid-City 5:30 p.m.
Endymion wraps floats in plastic and positions them inside convention center
LSU, SU bands play for Carnival
Landrieu: $45M in FEMA funds for SE La.
Looking for emergency loan forgiveness for Jefferson Parish
Gulf of Mexico oil spill partial settlement would give Louisiana $13.5 million
BP's minority partner to pay $90 million over oil spill
Coastal program could lose federal money
~Nikki Buskey
The legacy of the megaflood
New Orleans is regaining its tree canopy, and other Signs of Recovery
~New Orleans is recovering its lush tree canopy, thanks to private and public replanting. Parkway Partners planted its 10,000th post-storm tree this month, and Hike for KaTREEna has planted nearly 13,000 trees, mostly crape myrtles and magnolias, since 2007. The St. Charles Avenue Association has planted almost 300 young live oaks in the past five years and will plant its last trees this spring.Jus'sayin...
Richard Hart is out as Jefferson Parish Deputy COO ~Slabbed
Levees.org Founder to speak to Russian journalists
American Whistleblower Tour Visits Tulane University Feb. 28
~Panelists include:
- Adam Babich: Babich teaches environmental law and directs the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, which is regularly ranked among the Top Ten environmental law clinics of U.S. law schools.
- Steve Beatty: Beatty is Managing Editor of The Lens, a nonprofit media outlet focusing on the New Orleans area. Beatty is a veteran investigative reporter and editor, he previously worked for The New Orleans Times-Picayune and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- Tom Devine: Devine is GAP Legal Director, and has worked at the organization since 1979, assisting thousands of whistleblowers over that time. Tom has been a leader in the campaigns to pass or defend 20 major national or international whistleblower laws, including every one enacted over the last two decades. He has also authored or co-authored numerous books, including 2011's The Corporate Whistleblowers Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth.
- Susan Hutson: Hutson heads the City of New Orleans Office of the Independent Police Monitor (IPM), an independent, civilian police oversight agency. Its mission is to improve cooperation and trust between the community and the New Orleans Police Department through objective review of police misconduct investigations.
- Scott Porter: At the request of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Scott Porter, a biologist and diver with the nonprofit EcoRigs, dove into the oil plume (reported to be safe by NOAA) from the Deepwater Horizon disaster for water samples to determine toxicity. In exchange, NOAA would fund the dives and provide test results. Porter became severely ill after he began diving. During that time NOAA did not provide the test results, but EcoRigs was also working with non-government scientists to test similar samples, which showed high toxicity. NOAA cut off communications, never providing payment. Porter educates the public about environmental damage and public health threats from the oil spill.
- Sandy Rosenthal: Rosenthal is the founder of Levees.org, a nonprofit advocacy organization devoted to educating America on the facts associated with the 2005 catastrophic flooding of the New Orleans region. Started in late 2005, the project now has chapters in Illinois, Florida, Oregon and New York.
Sen. Paul to hold up confirmation of top Corps of Engineers nominee~Hat Tweet
@theharryshearerMissouri's Blunt, Luetkemeyer concerned about Corps’ funding without earmarks
‘Storm of the Century?’ Try ‘Storm of the Decade’ ~With climate change, today’s ‘100-year floods’ may happen every three to 20 years, according to new research~Jennifer Chu, MIT
File under: BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
If you can’t tase them, and you can’t eat them, well shoot them: The new Illinois solution to the Asian Carp~Quinta Scott
Mississippi River running unusually high