No, the East’s rebuilding wasn’t limited to tall apartments on top of three or four levels of parking garages, despite what was proposed. And, yes, homes in neighborhoods built on former marshland were rebuilt, despite the Green Dot Plan. A reminder of what did and did not happen after Hurricane Katrina by journalist Jed Horne.
Author Archives: Jed Horne
Opinion Editor Jed Horne is a veteran journalist who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize as part of the Times-Picayune team that covered Katrina and the recovery. He is the author of
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The truth will out
Left-wingers, right-wingers: Don’t lose heart. The truth about the presidential election of 2020 will soon be laid bare.
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Community organizer, author The Rev. William Barnwell dies at 81
William was a preacher and a civil rights advocate, the author of many books, a father, a husband, a man of many accomplishments. But by every instinct and with consummate skill, his life could be summed up in another way: he was above all an organizer.
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Merger ends a newspaper war, but the bloodletting may not be over
Absentee owners proved inadequate to the challenge.
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We’ve normalized Trump, but Tuesday night’s ‘victory’ may be his undoing
America is getting used to Trump; he may have to get used to the rule of American law.
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Puerto Rico one year later: Will the island be as lucky as we were post-Katrina?
A closer look at the disaster response Trump calls one of FEMA’s best efforts.
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Should we condemn Trump’s assault on the media — or learn to ignore his blathering?
Trump’s lies are a calculated distraction from what he’s actually doing.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Is New Orleans the place for a truly honest look at the slave system?
A way to repudiate the gauzy falsehoods of ‘Gone with the Wind.’
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Hot throw solves burning question! What to do with Gen. Lee’s remains?
Carnival works a bit of political magic.
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‘Fire and fury’? Or just more fakery: How to read the Trump takedown
Trump’s threat to ban the book has catapulted it to best-sellerdom.