Slidell My son and I are hardly scientists, but we know something about the marsh and bayous between Lake Pontchartrain and the West Pearl River. Until Katrina we had a fishing camp on two acres a mile or so as a crow would fly from the Lake. Now we have two acres of mainly marsh …
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Election Goes Digital in Honolulu
Ocean Springs A neighborhood commission saved $100,000 by allowing for encrypted voting for a neighborhood board election in Honolulu. The voting was from homes and offices. All reports indicated smooth sailing. Laws there forbid anything less than eyeball to eyeball identification in city and state elections. Change is coming though despite the high walls of the …
Public Editor Facts
New Orleans Clark Hoyt, the Public Editor of the august New York Times weighed in on the conservative blogosphere obsession with ACORN in Sunday’s paper after what he called several weeks of investigation. He was trying to figure out whether or not the editors of the Times killed a Stephanie Strom attack piece as the …