‘Speaking truth to power’
~Houma Today~"His lawsuit sounds like a long shot, but I’m rooting for Ivor van Heerden.
Anybody who has followed Louisiana’s efforts to protect itself against hurricanes and restore its eroding coast has, or should have, heard of van Heerden. He started at LSU in 1992 and two years later was appointed assistant secretary of the state Department of Natural Resources, heading Louisiana’s coastal-restoration program. When LSU announced his firing in April, he was deputy director of the university’s Hurricane Center, which he helped found in 2000."
How bad can Katrina Shorthand Get? Florida could teach Haiti!
Refugee v. Evacuee: Disaster Languaging ~Susan Dunn
New levees will be tested by encroaching Gulf~Nikki Buskey
~Some parts of the Terrebonne Levee District's planned Morganza hurricane-protection system, like this stretch of levee under construction near Cocodrie, are being built in areas that are fast becoming open water due to coastal erosion.~Please click to enlarge.
Sen. Mary Landrieu takes heat
on climate change
Suburbs hedge on support for downtown New Orleans teaching hospital~Bill Barrow
~But it is no secret that the state's proposed business model - which remains under review - calls for a new University Medical Center to attract an increased share of the region's paying patients that did not patronize Charity Hospital when it operated.
Some health care observers in the region speculate that if those paying patients do not materialize, the Legislature would have to direct additional state dollars - now distributed among other hospitals and providers - to keep UMC operational.
“Who Dat” Judge Martin Feldman – the 5th Circuit’s Opinion in Versai v Clarendon ~slabbed
Mean People Suck...
...CPAC Conservatives Swallow
Cao: Manchurian Candidate?
Despite Child-Gov Bobby Jindal's opposition, business leaders want high-speed rail between Baton Rouge, New Orleans
Bests and worsts: Carnival 2010
~Library Chronicles
Wow, did it really happen?
~Thanks Katrina
Tuesday’s Bejeweled Women ~NOLAFemmes
ULL reconstructs history
~Marsha Sills~The cliché regarding Rome has proven painfully true for one local construction crew as it set out to recreate history’s iconic structures as part of a series for the Discovery Channel. “We’ve had a week to build Rome and Egypt,” said Chris Carroll, an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Week in review~Gulf Coast Aerospace Corridor Perspective
FEMA trailers sale is cause for caution~Phil Mulkins
Novel looks at genetic experiments~Daily World
David Simon: 'Treme is a story about how American urban culture defines how we live'
~Andrew Anthony
Oscar-nominated animated shorts get face time at the Prytania~Mike Scott
Alternative Media Expo ‘10
– We Need Your Swag!
~Kraft Mafia ~H/T~ uproar
New Orleans musicians to be featured at White House tonight
Bingo! on Walkabout - Ronnie's Interview from PERTH NOW!
~The New Orleans Bingo! Show
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