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New Orleans There’s a t-shirt coming: global warming gonna get your mamma! The spate of disasters from Japan to Joplin, Birmingham, Alabama to Springfield, Mass brings all the horror home again. Living in New Orleans and still in recovery from Katrina and weaker and wiser from the experience, I keep an eye on these things, [...] New Orleans Henry Butler, the well known New Orleans piano player, and his music were featured on the Treme episode in the regular HBO Sunday slot. Early in the show, he said it was “good to be home.” In the real world of post-Katrina, Butler had showed up with thousands of others on the porch [...] New Orleans The Japanese can’t catch a break. Hundreds of bodies are still washing up on the shore. Towns were the body counts are unknown and frightening because after days of work only one-fourth or one-third of the ground has been covered. But, the big headlines here are not about the week [...] New Orleans After Katrina a group of us who were community organizers with ACORN in New Orleans were given tickets to go to Japan to see what lessons had been learned from the Kobe earthquake a little more than 10 years before Katrina in 1995 and their recovery as well as precautions Tokyo [...] 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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