French Quarter Fest prepares for heavy rain on Locals’ Lagniappe Day
Gentrifying the parade route ~Library Chronicles
New research indicates Mississippi River diversions could harm marshland ~Bob Marshall, The Lens~For decades, those leading the life-and-death struggle to
keep southeast Louisiana from being swallowed by the Gulf of Mexico have
had a battle cry: “Put the river back into the marsh.” The thinking is
that the river should be allowed to build new land, just as it had done
for millennia before flooding was controlled. But what if pollutants in the river’s fresh water will kill the marsh before those sediments can do good?
Dissenters who posed this question have been treated as outliers, if not obstructionists.Now a pair of recently released reports gives that question new relevance.
Lee Zurik Investigation: Mineral Board approves time for AG's "Dirty Deeds" probe
Two Tremé homes collapse, injuring four
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