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Posted inSquandered Heritage Vintage

Louisiana Land Trust

Here are the first 50 of the 300 houses going through 106 review before they are eligible to be demolished. The neighborhoods where these houses are located are Bywater Carrollton aka Northwest Carrollton Edgewood Park and Broadmoor You are encouraged to leave comments at this site as well as “view the full list”:http://www.crt.state.la.us/hp/latrust/readnotice.asp?NoticeID=2 Some of […]

Posted inGovernment & Politics

Soros: Economic Rights Versus Human Rights

Social justice is not the same as simple justice, said billionaire Holocaust survivor George Soros in an interview with The Lens. According to the Hungarian-born American investor and currency speculator, there is a distinction between judicial rights rights of freedom and rights to particular amenities or services, such as housing. “There is a legitimate objective […]

Posted inEnvironment

Nearly $2 million sent to Louisiana for Water Cleanup

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 announced today an award of $932,000 to Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, which is to be used for providing “alternative water supplies and relocation of residents at sites where underground storage tank releases occurred and the responsible party is unknown, unwilling or unable to respond.” This announcement comes on […]

Posted inCriminal Justice

Video: Soros Discusses Criminal Justice

Immediately upon sitting down with The Lens, George Soros immediately raised concerns about people trafficked in from overseas to work for Gulf Coast companies under draconian conditions, and then criminally detained for organizing and complaining about those conditions. He later lamented the amount of money spent on sending young students to courts and prisons, creating, […]

Posted inCriminal Justice, Government & Politics

Billionaire George Soros Increasing Involvement in New Orleans

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros arrived in New Orleans Tuesday to survey the progress of his foundation’s social investments, and after being in the city for less than 24 hours, he said he intends to increase his involvement in post-Katrina recovery efforts. Such expansion of giving comes at a time when other foundations have begun phasing […]

Posted inSquandered Heritage Vintage

Jeanne-Claude

I have been really fortunate over the last few years to have gone places I normally would not have gone. Earlier this year I went to New York to attend The Peabody Awards, I wrote a little bit about it here, “including a scene with Jeanne- Claude and Christo.”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2009/05/19/my-name-is-not-monica/ I had first seen her in […]