New Orleans I read the recent story in the Times about AOL’s $50M investment and grand hopes for Patch.com, a so-called hyper-local news source with wild interest. In these days of regular newspaper and TV news cutbacks what a great idea, especially for underserved communities: real community news! The “patch model” seems to be to …
Author: wade
Waste Land
New Orleans This had to be a hot ticket! Waste Land was an Audience Award Best Documentary (Waste Land Trailerat the prestigious 2010 Sundance Film Festival focusing on a powerful confluence of art and poverty and the lives of waste pickers in one of the world’s largest landfills, Jardim Gramacho, outside of the magical city …
Politicians Slip and Fall: Oliver Thomas’ “Reflections”
New Orleans Contrary to popular opinion, it is actually a very, very rare event for a New Orleans city politician to go to jail for some kind of corruption, regardless of our reputation. The hometown paper, The Times Picayune, campaigned mercilessly for investigations and convictions of Mayor Marc Morial and his troops, largely to no …