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Dara Horn Comes to Scarsdale

Joanne Wallenstein | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books

Read More: New Orleans, Harvard, All Other Things, Jewish Literature, Civil War, Dara Horn, Short Hills, Scarsdale, Judaism, Books News
Joanne Wallenstein

Calling Dara Horn an author is a misnomer. From the rabbi's introduction and her opening remarks it was clear that Horn could be called a theologian, a scholar, a professor and a mom.

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Katrina Survivor And Family Close To Finally Having Home Rebuilt

HuffPost | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 12.16.2009 | Impact

Read More: Katrina Victims, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, St. Bernard Parish, Jennifer Lanier, The St. Bernard Project, 12 Days 12 Cities 12 Families, Hurricane Katrina Survivor Stories, Impact News

This story is part of HuffPost Impact's 12 Days, 12 Cities, 12 Families series, highlighting Americans who have persevered to overcome incredible chal...

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Saints Chick Chattin: Punter Thomas Morstead

Melissa Smith | Posted 12.14.2009 | Sports

Read More: New Orleans, Garrett Hartley, John Carney, New Orleans Saints, Frank Gansz, Thomas Morstead, New Orleans Saints Undefeated, June Jones, Sports News
Melissa Smith

Wednesday, I had the pleasure of chatting with Thomas Morstead, our punting phenom. Morstead, a rookie from Pearland, Texas was voted Special Teams Player of the Week during week 11.

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New Orleans Police Shot 10 Civilians, 4 Of Whom Died, After Katrina, New Probe Finds

ProPublica | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pbs, New Orleans Police, New Orleans, Crime, Police, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Times Picayne, Katrina, Media, Propublica, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Frontline, Department of Justice, Police Shootings, Times-Picayune, Justice Department, Times Picayune, Politics News

During the turbulent days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, New Orleans police shot 10 civilians, at least four of whom died, according to interv...

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New Orleans LIVE On Twitter: Local News, Sports, People

Posted 12.15.2009 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, New Orleans Live Tweets, New Orleans Tweets, New Orleans Breaking News Twitter, New Orleans News, New Orleans People, New Orleans Live on Twitter, New Orleans Twitter, New Orleans Sports, Home News

Follow the latest in New Orleans LIVE through our curated Twitter lists: local news, local sports, and local people via tweets. Do you know a tweeter...

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Musicians Step Up To Serve Disadvantaged Neighborhoods

Posted 12.07.2009 | Impact

Read More: New Orleans, Musiciancorps, Musicians, Music, National Music Service, Kipp Gallagher, Underserved Communities, Impact News

A new program, MusicianCorps, hopes to do for music education in the U.S. what the Peace Corps did for international service, Good reports. In lat...

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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
Karen Dalton-Beninato

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

Read More: Hbo, New Orleans, Brad Pitt, Kermit Ruffins, Sandra Bullock, Rebirth, Thanksgiving, Harry Shearer, Matt Damon, Dr. John, Levees, Nonprofits, Charity, Harry Connick Jr., R.E.M., Branford Marsalis, Nomrf, Sustainability, Bobby Jindal, Neil Abramson, Joseph Cao, The Princess & the Frog, Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

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
Richard Walden

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
Harry Shearer

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
Rebecca Sive

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
Harry Shearer

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

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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
Harry Shearer

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
Jim Luce

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
Alex Geana

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
Harry Shearer

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
Harry Shearer

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
Karen Dalton-Beninato

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
Harry Shearer

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
Wayne Trujillo

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

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