Saints to open Dirty Birds in Superdome!

Plaintiffs unsure if levee breach lawsuit is worth it

State will contribute to Terrebonne floodgate

Floodwaters rising after storms deluge heartland 

How to Dine on a Train

Bucket Brigade Brings Earth Day by the Bayou

Crawfish boils, Fortier Fest, Family Day!

Corps' levee risk studies already outdated; new studies could guide future improvements, says Levee Board engineering consultant

Saints schedule is out!

Super Bowl XLVII tax revenue impact in N.O.: $34.9 million ~Danny Monteverde 

Backup S&WB turbine blamed for oily sheen over west Carrollton homes; relief may be a year away ~Uptown Messenger

Food Truck Reform Passes City Council ~William Dilella, NOLA DEFENDER

TWO SECOND LINES SUNDAY (New Orleans problems…) ~New Orleans Good Good

Sewage and Water Board pension plan for retiring director questioned

N.O., BR above average for downtown jobs

Pete Tortorich Eats, Breathes and Lives Louisiana Seafood

Aussie firm plans ammonia plant near New Orleans ~Bloomberg
~New plant causes joy and concern in Waggaman

Odd Words from Toulouse Street

New Orleans Good Good!



Seven Tips for the Seven Days of Jazzfest

Festival International de Louisiane!

Corps of Engineers awards $614.8 million contract for permanent pump stations at mouths of New Orleans canals

Corps will increase flow down the Atachafalaya ~Nikki Buskey

Levee berm expected to contain sinkhole brine, oil ~David J. Mitchell

Vieux Carré panel backs Morning Call proposal ~Danny Monteverde 

Bugs & Brew for Drew ~Blackened Out

New Orleans Earth Day Festival and Green Business Expo

Federal judge blasts Army Corps of Engineers for failing to protect New Orleanians during Katrina ~Mark Schleifstein
~In his Friday ruling, Duval pointed out that he had presided "over this hydra-like 'Katrina Umbrella' litigation for almost eight years. One central theme has been painfully obvious throughout this entire process," he wrote. "Many of the levees protecting New Orleans and the surrounding area were tragically flawed. "However, lamentably, there has been no judicial relief for the hundreds of thousands of people and tens of thousands of businesses impacted," he said. "The Flood Control Act of 1928 as interpreted over the years gives the United States Army Corps of Engineers virtually absolute immunity, no matter how negligent it might have been in designing and overseeing the construction of the levees."

NFL Free Agency: New Orleans Saints Sign Seneca Wallace and What it Means for 2013

Taking urban farming to new heights in New Orleans

ARCADIS Wins Two Environmental Restoration Contracts in Louisiana

Louisiana may owe feds millions for misspent storm aid, audit says

Sinkhole work stops as tremors increase

Heavy rains put quality of strawberry crop in doubt

Dalai Lama to visit New Orleans

French Quarter Festival Takes a Head Count

Shorty Fest (5.2.13) - A Benefit for the Trombone Shorty Foundation

Court To Notify Those Affected By Flooding From Hurricanes Katrina And Rita About A Class Action Settlement~The lawsuit alleges levees and other flood and water control structures failed and/or were overtopped as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita because they were not properly designed, inspected, or maintained, and that this failure caused property damage, personal injury and other losses. The Settling Defendants say that the levees failed for reasons beyond their control and that they did not do anything wrong.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/15/5342294/court-to-notify-those-affected.html#storylink=cpy

New diversion process planned for Barataria Basin ~Amy Wold 

Morganza to Gulf project OK recommended

Mimi's in the Marigny suspends live music

Corps addressing another levee seepage issue, this time on lakefront levee

Tax committee members oppose Jindal’s anything-goes approach to unfunded cuts ~Tyler Bridges, The Lens

Robert’s Fresh Market takes control of former Schwegmann’s site

 

Laumeier exhibit explores the shared history of St. Louis, New Orleans

French Quarter Festival Music Schedule!

Pontchatoula Strawberry Festival!

Tulane reportedly to ban all tobacco products on campus

Fox News Was Right ~He Said/She Said NOLA

Jindal only open to ideas on phasing out income taxes

 

St. Lawrence offers haven for the hungry with pub food in the French Quarter

French Quarter Fest: Music line up, map, World's Largest Jazz Brunch, film schedule

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

 

Treme neighbor of collapsed doubles sees pattern in housing nonprofit’s mismanagement ~Karen Gadbois, The Lens

Robert's to open grocery in Bywater

La. black bears recovering from near extinction

 

Dumpstaphunk Announces New Album Preview During Jazz Fest

City formally files to place federal receiver over Orleans Parish Prison

Something is killing dolphins in the Gulf

Gulf health questions linger after oil leak

 

Offshore extension bill dovetails into red snapper issue

 

French Quarter Fest 2013 Food Better ~He Said/She Said NOLA

 

Today in New Orleans ~NOLA DEFENDER

Gentrification flap rooted in an older debate over New Orleans ‘exceptionalism’ ~C. W. Cannon

When Boatloads of Federal Money Attack ~Mike Church~In 1817, President James Madison vetoed(1) Henry Clay and John C Calhoun’s “Bonus Bill” which would have given the Federal Government funding and authority to begin building levees, canals and roads. In his veto Madison wrote “The legislative powers vested in Congress are specified and enumerated, and it does not appear that the power for constructing canals, and improving the navigation of water courses… is among the enumerated powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States.”
If only Madison had been around in 1858 to stop Congress from siccing the Corps of Engineers on the levees of the Mississippi River(2), LSU would have a million more dollars and professor Ivor van Heerden might still be employed there. You see, after Katrina, van Heerden, as deputy director of LSU’s Hurricane Center looked into the levees that failed and concluded there was “catastrophic structural failure”, this after warning(3) in 2003 that the city was doomed if the right storm surge hit her.

Collapse of Jindal plan spawns unfunded schemes to phase out income tax ~Mark Moseley, The Lens

Poke a fork in his buns cause Jindal’s Done ~Dakinikat, Sky Dancing

Exxon Spills Chemicals in Louisiana While Cleaning Up Oil in Arkansas

As more bike paths are created, city of N.O. hosts Bike to Work Day

Federal City military charter school a step closer to permanent home costing $17 million

  

MS Jury finds State Farm committed fraud against federal government

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2013/04/08/4579415/jury-finds-state-farm-committed.html#storylink=cpy

 

Chargrilled Oysters Recipe

Will Coviello on what's new at the 30th annual free music fest in the Vieux Carre

~ 2013 French Quarter Festival Traffic Advisory

Harry Shearer will speak tonight at Loyola!

Mayor Landrieu Pushing 3 Bills in State Legislature

Owen Courreges: I’m not down with O.P.P.

JP's 'Pump to the River' project continues taking shape

Panic Attack: The Discovery Institute, Creationist “Think Tank,” Scared Senseless By Teenage College Student ~CenLamar 

New Orleans to host scientific conference on energy and food

Shotgun House Begone, Joseph Street, New Orleans, Louisiana ~The Curator of Shit

LSU spent a lot trying to quash academic freedom and befriend the Corps of Engineers ~James Gill~LSU comes out looking petty, vindictive and dishonest while taxpayers get a bill for $1 million. Will anyone get fired over this? Hell, no. That punishment is reserved for straight shooters. Ivor van Heerden must have been such a one, else the state would hardly have paid him $435,000 last month to settle his wrongful termination lawsuit. We now discover that LSU's futile resistance cost more than that in legal fees, which rather belies the notion that flagship universities attract top brainpower. If LSU had not been so keen to smear van Heerden, he might have been merely the professor who was right about Katrina. Instead, he was turned into a hero, the champion of academic freedom.

Jindal Republicans take aim at gutting solar power tax credit

Could the flood of 1983 happen again?

St. Claude Food Truck and Art Bazaar

Mule-Drawn Music

Even Bobby Jindal's own paid consultants criticize his "Jeep" neo-juvenile tax idea
 
~At right, Governorcist Bobby "Jeep" Jindal explains to Earnstwhile and Young, the pricey consulting firm hired by his administration for economic analysis of his tax plan, why it doesn't matter that sales taxes on services bought by businesses are bad ideas because companies pass those costs to customers or shrink economic activity in a state where such taxes are levied: "Jeep hungry. Eat! Fun!"


Judge rejects BP's attempt to 'reinterpret' multi-billion-dollar settlement ~David Hammer

Nation’s rivers in poor health ~Nikki Buskey

New Orleans skate culture hits campus ~The Loyola Maroon

The Mother of all Festival Lists 

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