Gambit goes in search of a rose…”Rose’s departure from The Times-Picayune staff would follow several other high-profile writers who chose to take the paper’s voluntary buyouts this year, including Rose’s fellow columnist Angus Lind, veteran crime reporter [...]
adrastos has bears on the mind watching the latest offering by Ken Burns (a living genius, no seriously, he’s in the pantheon, documentaries have never been the same since Civil War) on the National Parks.
While second rate Who songs are fodder for my own though process, this [...]
adrastos ask’s “does anyone want the job”?
Just for the record.
"I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President Mayor; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected" [...]Surprisingly, there is actually something Louisiana is ranked highly in that is actually good.
In two years, Louisiana has leaped from 44th in the nation to second in the percentage of toddlers getting their shots on time. TP
$10 bucks says if President Obama were to say vaccinations are [...]In case you missed it, there is a new deal with the company currently running the RTA’s public transportation system. For almost a year the system has been run under interm contracts by Veolia Transportation, the US affiliate of the Global Veolia Transport, a French company. It runs the Jefferson [...]
Rising Tide IV was by all accounts another stimulating and successful event. Particularly to be noted is that this conference has been cobbled together, not by an organization, but a group of individuals with day jobs, and scant experience in the “proper” way one plans and hosts such events. The [...]
So there was an incident with a not so sane former City Councilperson attempting to educate the masses on the finest country club cocktail party conspiracy theories.
Then there was the “Peoples Poet” the self appointed community “activist” crash the event and proceed to call the attendees wankers for not [...]
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,' [...]
Nagin, who is in Australia attending a conference on climate change, told The Associated Press that after a series of offers and counteroffers, Chevron has accepted the city's bid of $8 million, which he said is the property's appraised value. TP
So it appears that Nagin might actually accomplish [...]
Gone, but never to be forgotton…I was blown away at his first and only 2002 Jazz Fest performance.
Keith Spera has a great write up of the 7th ward original
"Louis's ace-in-the-hole was Sam Butera," said Gia Prima, the fifth of Louis's five wives and the singer in [...]
A week after she was indicted on federal racketeering charges, former state Rep. and New Orleans City Councilwoman Renee Gill Pratt has taken an unpaid leave of absence from her job at Southern University at New Orleans. TP
And the saga continues…
Gordon Russell has a [...]
Mayor Ray Nagin plans to do some globetrotting
Shortly after hosting a farewell gala this week for his departing recovery czar Ed Blakely at a posh downtown steakhouse, Mayor Ray Nagin will headline an academic program next month in Blakely's adopted hometown of Sydney,' [...]
Renee Gill Pratt, a former state representative and New Orleans city councilwoman, was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on federal racketeering charges. TP
"…sometimes God puts things in places for you." Renee Gill Pratt TP
And sometimes that includes an indictment, a costly trial, and perhaps [...]
As if I needed another reason to stay the hell out of Metry, and as far from their main “street” which is apparently defined as a traffic snarled, exhaust choked no-mans land of national franchises and manufactured ambiance littered with trash and all the other detritus of suburbia, now with [...]
It’s always interesting when you can watch an election campaign unfold in slow motion before your eyes. Without even a fig leaf of secrecy we are getting to see the development of the inevitable wave of attacks against public enemy number one Stacy Head in the great patriotic war to [...]
With all this talk of tea, this is what came to mind for me.This quote can be applied to a lot things these days:
“The press grabbed hold of the wrong end of the stick and started to beat about the bush with it...”
[...]First we were met with the planning eggheads in their ivory towers. The ULI “plan” produced shortly after Katrina, aka the “green dot” plan, wasn’t much more than a collection of loose ideas, and ham handed at best. Then came the Bring New Orleans Back commission, which [...]
To continue…We are back to the major goals. I cited “Recognize the city’s historic character…” in my previous post, so I’ll stick with that. From the goals we get to the “Actions”, as if they haven’t inundated us with “action” words enough already. Here are a few:
Coordinate economic development [...]
So, more on the draft of the Master Plan. While I discussed some of the interesting bits of the implementing and of the overarching “plan” I am now going to give you an idea of one of the major sections. It got rather long so it will be divide [...]
I’m still perusing the newly released draft of the new Master Plan, and I am blogging some notes on what I’m finding. I discussed some of the interesting bits of the implementing of the overarching “plan” in my last post, now here is an overall impression of the bits [...]
I’ve started to peruse the massive heap of PDF’s of the newly released draft of the new Master Plan as mandated by the October Charter change. I encourage you all to look over any aspect of it that grabs your attention. This is really more than one person can [...]
Oyster keep promising us some kind of Dr. Manhattan moment or at least some kind of earthshaking atomic blog post.
Sorry, but Blogs are closer to 9 volt batteries than atomic piles. Nothing released on a blog is ever really earthshaking. If it was it wouldn’t [...]
Representative Cao might just have done more to help the recovery of the city in a month and a half than Bill Jefferson did three and a half years.
Douglas Whitmer, the chief of staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Louisiana field office, has been asked to take a' [...]
One last serious note…
The following item ran in today’s TP
Mayor Ray Nagin has signed a long-awaited agreement that should finally allow the transfer of more than 4,500 storm-damaged properties from the state's Road Home program to local control so they can be redeveloped. TP
Now this' [...]
Karen picked it up first, but then she has a connection to it, but I would like to reiterate the good news that the terminal at Lakefront Airport (originally Shushan Airport) one of the cities tarnished (more like encrusted) gems is going [...]
Garbage Begins Piling Up In French Quarter
February 3, 2009
Excited residents of the French Quarter were met with another sign that the city is finally returning to normal after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The streets of the French Quarter are again littered with garbage.
In [...]
Oyster rounds up some of the blogger reactions to the resignation of Inspector General Robert Cerasoli which reads much like accounts from the bridge of the Titanic as they assessed the damage and number of lifeboats. We are all doomed.
I’ve noticed the general consensus around town seems [...]
I’m noticing that “Katrina” is taking on a new meaning of late. Just this morning the TP ran an article on the NADA convention and the address given by former Presidents Bush (the elder) and Clinton.
Clinton and Bush evoked the image of Hurricane Katrina to describe the level [...]
With three abstract pieces already installed, Jefferson Parish officials are calling on more sculptors to help turn cluttered thoroughfares [...]
The Universal Church or [...]
You know, not many people knew about it,
I might have to start watching network television again
I've posted this jam before, but it just seems to fit the Jazz Fest pause.
Yes, I am posting this simply for the song title reference, but it is pretty damn funny, particularly if you are a fan of 30 Rock.
We knew it was coming...
An Austrian pastor who has been quoted as calling Hurricane Katrina God's punishment for sin in New Orleans is being promoted to the rank of bishop. 
Today's exercise is to compare and contrast the following quotes:
