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Vanessa's picture in the Times Picayune by David Grunfeld New Orleans These things all take time. I finally am bothering friends and family about how to make our fishing camp on the bayou abutting the Big Branch National Wildlife Refuge a mile up from Lake Ponchartrain useable again without rebuilding. A pontoon and pulley operation rather [...] New Orleans Today Sandra Bullock, recently an Academy Award winning best actress and since Hurricane Katrina a laser focused supporter and annual homecoming queen of Warren Easton High School on Canal Street, demanded her piece on a promo video done by “Women of the Storm” about Gulf restoration be removed because she refused to [...] New Orleans Fingers are crossed, breath held, and hopes soaring that finally there may be an interim fix on the British Petroleum BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. An article by David Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin in the Washington Post yesterday asked in a timely fashion why this oil crisis has [...] Atlanta Man, I hope this works! I don’t want another couple of months of oil in the Gulf of Mexico while relief wells are dug. The Wall Street Journal wrote optimistically this morning that the “new” sealing cap could finally the lifesaver, and I really, really want to believe them. The New York Times [...] New Orleans Road Home, the famously slow to get started mess of a program whose ineptness cost Governor Kathleen Blanco any hope of re-election, now finds yet another pothole in the path of the recovery of the city. There is $800,000,000 of unspent funds in Road Home and given the national budgetary disaster, the [...] New Orleans I know Venice, Louisiana pretty well, not that there is a lot to know. It’s a strip of land dominated by a blacktop highway ending in water and bordered by a fringe of shell gravel here and there and nothing but water. I worked 14 day shifts on and 7 days off [...] New Orleans This is not a public relations disaster for British Petroleum to try and manage from the Exxon Valdez playbook, but an environmental cataclysm of epic “worst-in-class” proportions that needs an immediate and stepped up response so that we do not have a Katrina II catastrophe sweeping not only Louisiana but [...] New Orleans Judge Terry Alacorn of Section L, Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, told all of us in the jury pool that participating in citizen service as a juror was second only to military service in making the country work. Maybe? Definitely there were many in the pool with me who [...] |
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