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Dear President Obama: New Orleans Needs a Surge

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Congress, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, The Surge, Barack Obama and Afghanistan, Afghan War Strategy, Troop Escalation, Afghanistan War, Politics News

You are invited to impose security. Strategy, slogans, a new direction, we'll take it all. You are now marching toward escalation; please escalate at home to reassure a crime-weary New Orleans.

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Brad Pitt's New Orleans Project Gets Mixed Local Reaction

nytimes.com | FRED A. BERNSTEIN | Posted 11.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt New Orleans, Make It Right, Entertainment News

In 2007, frustrated by the slow pace of rebuilding in the Lower Ninth, Brad Pitt set up a foundation called Make It Right; the foundation then commiss...

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Pilgrim's Progress: 10 Reasons to be Thankful for New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.28.2009 | Living

I was taken aback when a CNN commentator conjectured that New Orleans residents are now looking for their "Pound of flesh." Our diaspora is not Shakespeare's Shylock character.

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7 Gifts that Give Back to the World

Richard Walden | Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact

Read More: New Orleans, Africa, Vitamin A, Toilets, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Awesome Girls, Water Wells, Holiday Gifts, Disaster Relief, Oprah, Health Insurance, Community Clinics, Nicaragua, Micro-Credit Loans, Thephilippines, Impact News

This holiday season there are a number of ways you can donate to powerful causes in honor of family and friends that they would wholeheartedly endorse in lieu of a gift.

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Why Obama Needs to Weigh In With the Corps of Engineers

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, US Army Corps of Engineers, Obama New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News

Republicans defended Bush and blamed state and local officials when the Army Corps of Engineers was found culpable for the flooding of New Orleans. Now Democrats are doing the same thing.

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A Lesson for Those Who Would Lead America's Cities: Michael Scott Did Not Die in Vain

Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Birmingham, New Orleans, Urban Policy, Washington, Detroit, Los Angeles, Michael Scott, Eugene Sawyer, Carl Sandburg, Richard Daley, Miami, Harold Washington, Chicago News

In this week of Harold Washington's death, 22 years ago, I can't help but think of Harold and Michael -- together. In this time of thanksgiving, what can we learn from two lives cut too short?

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New Orleans: Where Accountability Failed, Liability Follows

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Katrina, New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News

The Army Corps of Engineers' liability for damages to at least three New Orleans plaintiffs has been made official by a Federal district judge. The question now is whether the Justice Dept. will appeal.

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Judge: Hurricane Katrina Flooding Was Caused By Army Corps Of Engineers' Negligence

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Negligence, New Orleans, Ninth Ward, Bobby Jindal, Hurricane Katrina, Kathleen Blanco, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Levees, Nagin, Cause of Katrina, Hurricane, Katrina Flooding, Katrina Memorial, Louisiana, Ray Nagin, Army Corps of Engineers, Road Home, What Caused Hurrican Katrina Flooding, 9th Ward, Katrina Recovery, Justice, National Government, Katrina Court Case, Mr-Go, Mrgo, Home News

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive...

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Help Rebuild John McDonogh High School in New Orleans

HuffPost | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.20.2009 | Impact

Read More: New Orleans, City Year, Community Service, Msnbc, Morning Joe in New Orleans, Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski Morning Joe, Handson Network, Katrina Relief, Public Service, Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe New Orleans 2009, Starbucks, Morning Joe New Orleans, Digger Phelps Joe Scarborough, Hurricane Katrina, Mika Brzezinski, Brewing Together, Impact News

Coming here from joe.msnbc.com? Scroll down to the widget below and click the "Contribute" button to give to City Year. Don't know what we're talking ...

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Waste in Your Levee? Don't Blame the Corps

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Levees, US Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News

Crazy how accountability works at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Other than construction waste in the levees, how many other such mistakes have gone undiscovered?

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NBC's Brian Williams: Changing the World for the Better

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: New Orleans, White House, Council on Foreign Relations, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Bono, Thought Leaders, Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, Columbia University School of Journalism, Global Citizens, Msnbc, Cnbc, Yitzhak Rabin, Jim Luce, Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World., Hurricane Katrina, Nigeria, Jane Stoddard Williams, Bill Clinton, Kabul, New Canaan, Ghana, Ohio State University, Making a Difference, Paul Stevers, Bates College, Facebook, Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, HIV/AIDS, Andeisha Farid, Tom Brokaw, Mali, Afghan Child Education and Care Organization, Walter Cronkite, Afceco, Disease, Jimmy Carter, Afghanistan, Orphans International Worldwide, Poverty, New York News

Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...

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CNN Heroes: New Orleans Kids Plant 'Roots Of Music'

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact

Read More: New Orleans, Roots of Music, Tutoring, After-School Programs, Music Education, Music Nonprofit, CNN Heroes, Derrick Tabb, Marching Bands, Impact News

After Hurricane Katrina, many schools stopped offering music programs due to budget cuts. New Orleans native Derrick Tabb keeps students off the stree...

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Opera Comes to Duane Park

Alex Geana | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Theater, Duane Park, Opera, New Orleans, Dinner Theater, New York News

During the beginning of the last century New Orleans was the center of the opera universe. Duane Park drew inspiration from there for their new Thursday night series, Theatre d'Orleans.

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Flood Insurance: The Flip Side of Katrina

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Fema, Flood Zone Maps, Los Angeles, Politics News

FEMA discovered that something they thought was a levee in the 1970s turned out to be a raised railroad track, triggering the redefinition of the neighboring streets as flood zone.

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Out of the Mouths of Corps Managers...

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News

New Orleanians are right to worry about what the Corps of Engineers is doing in the "rebuilding" of the levee-floodwall system.

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10 Pix from 11th Voodoo Music Experience

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Kiss, New Orleans, George Clinton, Voodoo Music Experience, Rehage, Entertainment News

The Voodoo Music Experience just wrapped its 11th year, and volume-wise it goes to 11 (to borrow a phrase from Spinal Tap).

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New Orleans: The Corps Defends the Future

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Ninth Ward, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News

I'm preparing to make a documentary film on the causes of the flooding of New Orleans, and so I decided to attend one of the community outreach meetings the Corps of Engineers holds.

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FDA to ban sale of raw oysters from Gulf of Mexico

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Vibrio Vulnificus, New Orleans, P, Gulf of Mexico, Fda, Oysters, Food, Food Safety, Oyster Ban, Bacteria, Oyster, Shellfish, Home News

NEW ORLEANS — Federal officials plan to ban sales of raw oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico unless the shellfish are treated to destroy p...

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An Endless -- and Escalating -- War at Home, Part II

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver

Read More: New Orleans, Inner-City Neighborhoods, Five Points, Poverty, Latino, Drugs, Black, Highland, Denver, African American Culture, Gentrification, Denver News

After gentrification the problems populating inner-city neighborhoods like Five Points aren't solved. They just relocate.

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US Army Corps can't stop floods in New Orleans

Paul Brown | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Floods, Levees, Louisiana, Army Corps of Engineers, Green News

Lt. General Robert Van Antwerp, Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers would not answer my question "Should New Orleans be abandoned?" But the Gene...

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If It's Art, Must It Be Pornography?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Women, Children, Books, Writing, Media, Sexual Abuse, Strip Clubs, Pornography, Amazon.com, New Yourk Times, Art, Boston Globe, Reviews, Times Picayune, Eve Ensler, Strippers, Andre Dubus, Book Reviews, New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Vagina Monologues, Books News

I'm all for freedom expression even when it comes to veiled pornography, but I don't want to be tricked into buying it for God's sake.

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...And Then He Got Fired

Paul Brown | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Floods, Environment, Effects of Climate Change, New Orleans, Van Heerden, Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Green News

Two Christian religious leaders combined yesterday to warn that time was running out for the life of the planet.

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Should New Orleans Retreat Inland?

Paul Brown | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Rivers, New Orleans, Climate Change, Memphis, Copenhagen 2009, Green News

A symposium this week is part of a wider discussion about climate change and particularly threats to coastal cities like London and New York. The aim is to send a forceful message to politicians.

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Screw the FEMA Trailer: Will Green Houses Save The Gulf?

Katherine Gustafson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Katherine Gustafson, Green Architecture, New Orleans-Louisiana, BeauSoleil House, Washington DC, Solar Decathalon, Green Living, Green Energy, Green News

In the wake of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, a team of college students hatched an ambitious idea: to design an energy-efficient, hurricane-proof and Cajun-style house for the future of the Gulf Coast.

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