New Orleans Revitalization

Silver Spring Campbell Robertson from the Times did a piece on the Katrina impact on New Orleans at the 4th anniversary and given the fact – to their credit – that the Times has stayed on the New Orleans / Katrina story all of these years, it bears attention, if for nothing else to [...]

Democracy Waiting for Katrina Recovery

New Orleans Tonight I might have a Fat Tire in memory of four years ago, as I did, when marooned in Denver a mile high while I watched New Orleans flood.  I won’t have a bowl of buffalo chili, as I did then, but hopefully I’ll find a bowl of gumbo.  [...]

Katrina Discretionary Recovery

New Orleans On Sunday and Monday with days to the 4th anniversary of Katrina, there have been “exclusive” interviews between first Obama and then Biden and the Times-Picayune. Why?  Because here in the crescent city, people feel let down and disappointment finding that the new administration is as slow and [...]

NOLa Town Hall Turning a Vote

Dauphin Island As vacation is slowly going out like the tide on this barrier island, dispatches from home included the mail and the Times-Picayune.  Flipping through them while watching Clive Owen and Naomi Watt in The International with the tribe, I was pleased to recognize two pictures on Friday’s Metro page of the paper with the [...]

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