If you look at this photo you will see the people who are cooking and serving the food outside Commanders are citizens of New Orleans.

These are the people who did not leave, these are the people who stand this City back up after it falls down. These are the people who clean the storm drains, pick up the debris, patrol their Neighborhoods and make it a CITY

“So”:http://thechicory.com/blog/?p=452 next “time”:http://wecouldbefamous.blogspot.com/2008/09/third-estate.html you “think”:http://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/im-with-james-obyrne/ “about”:http://blogofneworleans.com/blog/2008/09/02/tier-wars-fielkow-head-fire-back/ “shutting”:http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html#1698158075401138554 “people”:http://adrastos.blog-city.com/why_we_fume.htm out, think again.

Commandos at Commanders

Someone at City Hall said that what Katrina did to the Levees, Gustav did to Entergy. If that is so we need to have the same level of scrutiny applied to Entery that we have had to the ACOE. A system that has widespread failure is not what we need, and just “like after Katrina I am sure Entergy”:http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20060220/ai_n16159641 is positioning itself to get what they can.

Karen Gadbois

Karen Gadbois co-founded The Lens. She now covers New Orleans government issues and writes about land use. With television reporter Lee Zurik she exposed widespread misuse of city recovery funds and led...