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Sandra Bullock for Louisiana Governor

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 Needs Katrina Gap Money

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 [...]

Dancing in the Streets of New Orleans

New Orleans The fireworks starting going off during the last minute of play.  It was clear.  The impossible was now possible.  Hell had frozen over.  Snow was certain for July.  The Saints had won the Super Bowl!

Driving down the streets in the neighborhoods was hard.  There was too much dancing in the streets.  Second [...]

Who Dat, My Way, and John Denver

New Orleans The first year of the Saints I was on one of my listless tours of college life.  I was on a streak with a couple of buddies in which the daily highlights were playing pool and watching the 8 PM movie of the night, and of course arguing about the Vietnam War.  [...]

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