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Public Space

Last month we walked with the Mardi Gras Indians by the landscape of change. With all the talk of the buildings coming down I found little discussion of the impact of “changing the public space”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/elie/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1208323471243710.xml&coll=1, and what that means for future walks through the City. “I found this lecture series very interesting”:http://www.invisibleinstitute.com/conference In it they […]

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Ashley Morris

Ashley was a passionate, generous soul. His “funeral”:http://www.dsbnola.com/?p=143 was a fitting tribute to a friend and again “closed”:http://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/tragedy-in-two-acts/ a “sad circle.”:http://b.rox.com/2008/04/11/no-silence/ How could anyone have suspected on that day in January of 2007 as we marched to show our outrage as a City, our outrage over the murders “Dinneral Shavers”:http://foodmusicjustice.com/2007/01/09/dinerral-shavers-in-memorium/ and “Helen Hill”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hill as well […]

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HDLC demolition applications

CITY OF NEW ORLEANS THE NEW ORLEANS HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION WILL HOLD ITS NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING ON FRIDAY, April 11th AT 9:30 A.M. IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS IN CITY HALL AT 1300 PERDIDO STREET . THE PUBLIC IS WELCOME. MEETING STARTING TIME IS 9:30 A.M. “727-29 N. Robertson Street”:http://squanderedheritage.wikispaces.com/727.North.Robertson.Street Howard Herbert, owner […]

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News from the Archdiocese

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue”:http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13790a.htm The words and “deeds”:http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories3/120402_burns.htm of “Archbishop Alfred Hughes”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Clifton_Hughes Our action or inaction failed to protect the innocents among us, the children. I ask for forgiveness “Todays news”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/04/archbishop_announces_sweeping.html “For more”:http://citizenscityhall.com/2008/04/09/archdiocese-releases-plan-to-close-churches-asks-us-to-leave-the-room/

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Ashley Morris Family Fund

Ashley Morris..I remember reading this post “back Home with a Vengance”:http://ashleymorris.typepad.com/ashley_morris_the_blog/2005/12/back_home_with_.html I have thought a lot about the idea of after anger comes hopelessness and how much hopelessness is being offered then and now. So Ashley “managed”:http://humidhaney.typepad.com/the_humid_haney_rant/2008/04/a-video-of-ashl.html to fan the fire that we all hold within us. “Greg”:http://www.suspect-device.com/blog/?p=2081 thought it was gone, but it is […]

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Demolition Dust

Every demolition job is required to have dust control. Yesterday while driving down Washongton Ave I was enveloped by a cloud of dust. This dust is “harmful and is wafting”:http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695201355,00.html over a very large area of Central City, creating a toxic dust cloud, anyone have Alphonse Jacksons phone number? “or even Rene from HUD?”:http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20060904k it […]

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CJ Peete

UPDATE “Alphonse Jackson”:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120692786807175983.html Based on this “article”:http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2008/03/market_crunch_hinders_new_hous.html the funding for these projects is not yet closed. Perhaps we can look “forward”:http://www.bootstrap-analysis.com/2006/07/more_on_the_urb.html to a new “Urban Prairie”:http://detroityes.com/webisodes/2004/13-UrbanPrairie/HermanGarden.htm “or maybe not”:http://www.landliving.com/articles/0000000995.aspx