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"Squandered Heritage" In Texas

Just back from a trip to “Netroots Nation”:http://www.netrootsnation.org/node/865 in Austin Texas. The last time I was in the Convention Center in Austin it was to register for Red Cross relief. This time it was under much better circumstances. Thanks to “Al”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-giordano, “Eli”:http://wecouldbefamous.blogspot.com/ “John”:http://www.johnmbarry.com/bio.htm and “Marshall”:http://www.fubcno.org/tp30_print/page.asp?ID=57474 for putting together an interesting panel. “Allan got us all […]

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Ray Nagin has no clue

The Administration is on “spin cycle”:http://www.wdsu.com/video/16915519/index.html on this one. Contrary to what the Mayor says, or was told to say this house was identified and cleared for demolition over 6 months ago. 3963 Delachaise has been on the city’s demolition radar for a very long time. The city knew 3963 Delachaise was in “imminent danger […]

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Delachaise

Yesterday this house on Delachaise “collapsed.”:http://videos.nola.com/times-picayune/2008/07/two_houses_collapse.html The reason I had a photo of it is that it was on an Imminent Danger of Collapse list. So while the City had cited it 4 times as a Health threat and then declared it officially in Danger of Collapse it stood for 7 more months. There seems […]