Just got back from taking my child to college. The last time we had a car trip so filled with anxiety and uncertainty it was evacuating in 2005. She was a freshman in high school and when we returned in December she returned to her flooded school to start where she left off. An unwise […]
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Demolition by chainsaw Babin/Africa Plantation
I received a disturbing e mail this morning that the Babin / African Museum was demolished using a chainsaw. The house as it stood is near the very bottom of the page “link”:http://www.africanamericanmuseum.org/aboutmuseumfuture.html The Africa Plantation House, located in Modeste, Louisiana is another building of African American significance in the Donaldsonville area. It was originally […]
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Demolition Denied
There was a great turnout today from all over New Orleans who all spoke in opposition to the Archdiocese plan to demolish Annunciation Church. The application was denied.
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The Archdiocese opts for demolition
This weeks NCDC agenda contains an application to demolish “The Annunciation Church”:http://www.neworleanschurches.com/annunciation/annunciation.htm My guess is they want to demolish the Church along with the rectory and meeting hall to build senior housing. Which in and of itself may be a needed service, but with the abundance of vacant lots in the City it would seem […]
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Rising Tide
Come on come all… “Click here to register”:http://risingtideblog.blogspot.com/
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Local Purpose, National Relevance
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Death of the Daily
The death of daily newspapers has been predicted for decades, but in the past year their decline accelerated. The consequence of diminished investigative reporting is especially dire on the Gulf Coast where communities remain in the throes of post-disaster recovery, with public policies undergoing major reform and billions in federal recovery dollars being spent with little oversight or accountability. The huge stakes here did not prevent Advance Publications, owner the Greater New Orleans region’s only daily newspaper, The Times Picayune, from recently announcing plans to further shrink its newsroom – and further erode coverage of the critical issues facing this uniquely challenged region.
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New in the news
For the last few months I have been working on a project to create an online data driven investigative news source. I have been incubating this under the umbrella of “The New Orleans Institute”:http://www.theneworleansinstitute.org/ and we have been making some steady progress to that end. Last week we were chosen by the “Zeitoun Foundation”:http://www.zeitounfoundation.org/ to […]
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Move On
One of the most traumatic events of my life was being diagnosed with breast cancer in May of 2005. Being uninsured and throwing Katrina into the mix was pretty stressful and I am grateful that I lived to tell the tale. This piece “says it best”:http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/07/01/stand-with-breast-cancer-survivors-of-north-carolina-ask-kay-hagan-to-support-a-public-plan/ *Please call* Senator Landrieu’s D.C. office line: (202)224-5824 New […]