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Category Archives: New Orleans
Reflections from the Lower Ninth
A little over a month ago, the New York Times Magazine published a long piece about the Lower Ninth Ward. I asked our resident expert, David Eber a former AVODAH Corps member who has worked in the Lower Ninth for … Continue reading
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Six Years Since Katrina
6 years today. Thanks to Nola for being the best adopted home a girl could ask for.
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Six Years Since Katrina
6 years. My heart will always be in Lakeview. NOLA Forever. ♥
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Six Years Since Katrina
Can you believe it has been 6 years? Where has the time gone. I continue to thank and appreciate everyone that has contributed to the rebuilding of New Orleans and the successes the city has had. Thank you to everyone … Continue reading
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Six Years After Katrina
Bill Quigley, a law professor at Loyola, reminds us that, six years later, the numbers still matter: Six years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. The impact of Katrina and government bungling continue to inflict major pain on the … Continue reading
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Six Years Since Katrina
Today is the 6th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and the 6th year of people still struggling to return to their homes. My thoughts go out to all those still displaced wanting to return to their homes.
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Six Years Since Katrina
I’ll be posting today some Facebook statuses of folks who were here in NOLA during Katrina. If you’d like me to post yours, just let me know by e-mail. I never quite know what to say on Katrina anniversaries, but … Continue reading
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Helping On Race
The release of The Help, a movie based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel of the same name, has led to an interesting discussion about race in fiction and in fact. (Here, for example, are two interesting and negative takes on the … Continue reading
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Relevant History
Here’s a great article from AP’s Christopher Sullivan about the commemoration of the Civil War. An excerpt: A hush fell over the crowd filling the elegant hall in downtown Richmond, Va. The vote was about to be announced, and a … Continue reading
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Voting With Our Heads
Following up a thread about voting in local elections I started below, I note this interesting post (via Andrew Sullivan) about voting in America: Unfortunately, extensive evidence shows that most voters both know very little about public policy and do … Continue reading
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More on War on Taxes
Apropos my final comments from the last post, I should also note that voters in Kenner, LA (next to my own home of Metairie) soundly rejected a proposed menu of tax increases to fund sewage, police and fire: Kenner Mayor … Continue reading
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Diminished Detroit
Since I am delayed in the airport in New Orleans, and since Armstrong airport has (hooray!) free wi-fi, I thought I should highlight this great article from The New York Times about planning for the shrinking of Detroit. Here’s the … Continue reading
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A Family Affair
I don’t follow local politics as closely as I should, partly because I find it hard to get really worked up about say, the race for Jefferson Parish Assessor. It’s not the job isn’t important–figuring out how much to charge … Continue reading
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Fixing New Orleans
Shir Chadash member Josh Lichtman, who is the director of Avodah in New Orleans, and Moshe Kornfeld, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan (who also happens to be my brother-in-law) have a nice article up at PresentTense, one of … Continue reading
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