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The First 100 Days in New Orleans

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Obama, Obama First 100 Days, Obama New Orleans, Barack Obama, 100 Days, New Orleans-Louisiana, Politics News
Harry Shearer

What has Barack Obama meant to the city almost destroyed by federal malfeasance in 2005? The best, and the worst, one can say is that he's lived up to his campaign promises.

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Letting Texas Secede

Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Wind Power, Supreme Court, Phil Gramm, Willie Nelson, Obama, Tibet, Arizona, Canada, Sxsw, Civil Rights, Military, New Mexico, Racism, Hurricane Katrina, Oklahoma, Constitution, Wikipedia, Energy, T. Boone Pickens, Karl Rove, Bible, California, Crime, War, Mexico, United States, Texas, Anti-Americanism, Darwin, Oil, Florida, Texas Secession, Alberto Gonzales, Unions, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

Governor Rick Perry of Texas brought up the specter of Secession recently and upon polling, a fair amount of Texans and other Americans seem to think Texas seceding from the US would be a good idea.

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Earth Day At Your Service: Generation New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Studio at Colton, The Kindness Project, Rebuilding Together New Orleans, ARC Mardi Gras Bead Recycling, Preservation Resource Center, Alliance for Affordable Energy, Historic Green, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, The Louisiana Cypress Purchase Legacy, Green Light New Orleans, Global Green, recycle4thearts, New Orleans, Service, Earth Day, Volunteers, Barack Obama, New Orleans Musicians Relief FUnd, Mardi Gras, Green Living, The Giving Life, New Orleans-Louisiana, Green News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

New Orleans met the new generation of grass roots volunteers the hard way -- they helped clean up after the largest American environmental disaster since the Dust Bowl and have been pitching in ever since.

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Chinese Drywall and the Cost of Truth-Telling

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Chinese Drywall, Lsu, Ivor Van Heerden, Hurricane Katrina, Bobby Jindal, China, Politics News
Harry Shearer

As if Formosan termites weren't bad enough (they devour everything, not just wood), now New Orleans is coming to grips with its latest visitor: defective drywall.

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Paul Sanchez: Taking Back His Life Through Words & Music

Sal Nunziato | Posted 05.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Paul Sanchez, Threadhead Records, Jazz Fest, John Boutte, Stew Called New Orleans, Cowboy Mouth, Entertainment News
Sal Nunziato

As we approach the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I often wonder, as I hope millions of others often wonder, how are all those amazing people who lost their homes and their lives?

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Taxing THC: Turning Old New York into New New Amsterdam

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: New Orleans, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Marijuana, Drugs, Amsterdam, California, Military Industrial Complex, Glaucoma, Norml, David Paterson, Drug War, Medical Marijuana, Blue Laws Repealed, Decriminalization, Budget Deficit, New York, Tom Ammiano, Politics, Cannabis, Intractable Pain, Federal Budget Deficit, Marijuana Amsterdam, Blue Laws, Neoconservatives, Weed, Legalize Marijuana, Ground Zero, Law Enforcement, Economy, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

Bollocks! How is that California, the crossroads of implants, spray tans and superficiality, has a leg up on the Empire State, on the possible legalization and taxation of Cannabis sativa?

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New Orleans: Where Did the Money Go?

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Road Home, Affordable Housing, New Orleans Housing, Katrina, New Orleans Recovery, Politics News
Harry Shearer

The State of Louisiana has just replaced the previous private contractor, ICF, in charge of the program to renovate or rebuild affordable rental housing in New Orleans.

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"I'll Consider It Criminal"

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.13.2009 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Levee Repairs, Stimulus Package, Katrina, Hurricanes, Levees, Lake Ponchartrain, Home News
Harry Shearer

Here comes confirmation that a money shortage may be inclining the Army Corps of Engineers toward building a technologically inferior solution to New Orleans' Category 3 hurricane protection.

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The Monkey's Pawn: Monkey Misery Outshines Human Misery in Louisiana's Delta

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media

Read More: New Orleans, Animal Rights, Human Rights, Louisiana, Rural Poor, Fema, Mary Landrieu, Hurricane Recovery, Media Bias, Congo, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

While the NYT signals that all is well in Congo because the mountain gorilla is well fed, a woman places her newborn baby on a tattered piece of cloth covering a bed of grass on lava rock.

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Generational Theft?

Alan Fein | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business

Read More: New Orleans, Debt, President Obama, George W. Bush, Halliburton, Democrat, President Eisenhower, Budget Deficit, Republican, Business News
Alan Fein

The capital projects coming out of the stimulus plan and the Obama budgets are designed to create long-term wealth, and assets that will ensure to the benefit of generations to come.

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Obama Using New Orleans As Green Blueprint

The Washington Times | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Katrina, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast, Barack Obama, Gulf Coast Recovery, Politics News

President Obama's aggressive approach to Gulf Coast recovery has allowed him to put a liberal policy stamp on the region and apply campaign promises t...

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Is It too Late for a Sense of Urgency?

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.06.2009 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, Coastal-Erosion, President Obama, Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Home News
Harry Shearer

The causes of the erosion in Louisiana are clear. The means to reverse the process are equally well known. All that's missing is... a sense of urgency.

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PSFK Talks to NOLA's Dirty Coast

Piers Fawkes | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Creativity, Design, New Orleans, Louisiana, Dirty Coast, Psfk, Business News
Piers Fawkes

This article originally appeared on PSFK.com. When PSFK found itself at the far end of Magazine Street in New Orleans, we visited one of the creative...

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Miami to Memphis -- My Top Ten Insights

Paul Hogarth | Posted 04.02.2009 | Style

Read More: New Orleans, Mississippi Delta, Hurricane Katrina, Mardi Gras, Everglades, Rebuilding New Orleans, Florida Everglades, Key West, Style News
Paul Hogarth

10. Graceland is Less Opulent than Expected: The King of Rock 'n' Roll's famous home was surprisingly quite modest.

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The Ponderosa Stomp: It's Not "A" Party, It's "The" Party

Sal Nunziato | Posted 04.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Aretha Franklin, New Orleans, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Ponderosa Stomp, James Burton, Hi Rhythm Section, Al Green, Wanda Jackson, House of Blues, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
Sal Nunziato

The Ponderosa Stomp is a gathering of those unsung heroes of rock and roll, soul, blues, funk, rockabilly and more.

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National Guard To Pull Out Of New Orleans After 3 1/2 years

AP | MARY FOSTER | Posted 03.30.2009 | Home

Read More: National Guard Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, National Guard, New Orleans-Louisiana, Home News

NEW ORLEANS — Three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans this weeke...

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Louisiana's Landrieu Calls for Resignation of FEMA Chief of Staff

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fraud, New Orleans, Rep. Joseph Cao, Hurricanes, Ike, New Orelans, Gustav Louisiana, Katrina, CBS News, Fema, Mary Landrieu, Mardi Gras, Fema Trailers, Politics News
Georgianne Nienaber

The four-year anniversary of Katrina approaches in August. Life in New Orleans has not returned to pre-storm "normality," despite billions of federal dollars that never seem to reach the ground.

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Bobby Jindal's Tim Calhoun Moment

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Tim Calhoun, Mardi Gras, Bobby Jindal, Barack Obama Speech, Saturday Night Live, New Orleans-Louisiana, Politics News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Compare SNL candidate Tim Calhoun's style to what we witnessed tonight from Jindal. Between the karate chop gestures to accent his words and laughter at strange moments, there's a resemblance.

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Winds of Change: The Rebirth of New Orleans

Mark Newberg | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Fema, New Orleans Recovery, New Orleans-Louisiana, Politics News
Mark Newberg

While we haven't been watching, New Orleans has been working. And now, just as the first signs of spring have arrived, the signs of New Orleans' rebirth are there, if only we care to look.

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John Sinclair: Dr. John and Mardi Gras

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.21.2009 | Media

Read More: New Orleans, Dr John, John Sinclair, Mardi Gras, Live Green Orleans, Media News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

I've been blessed enough to have John Sinclair share excerpts from his upcoming book, and there can be no better day to publish it than Mardi Gras.

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Plenty of Nothin' for New Orleans?

Harry Shearer | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, Hurricane Katrina, Economic Stimulus Package, New Orleans Stimulus Plan, Stimulus Package, New Orleans Stimulus Money, Green News
Harry Shearer

My first thought when reading no stimulus money was earmarked for hurricane recovery was, "Damn, three and a half years along, and we're not shovel-ready." But in fact, that's not the case.

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Brooklyn, George W. Bush, Oregon, Colorado, Race, Missouri, Dc, Eric Holder, Rural Issues, Virginia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, John Kerry, Racism, Republican Party, Mississippi, Suffolk County, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Alabama, Massachusetts, Congress, Kendrick Meek, Minnesota, New York, Barack Obama, Education, Mexican-American Issues, South, Michigan, Arkansas, Tennessee, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Senate, New Orleans, Palm Beach, Morris County, Washington, Immigration, Democratic Party, Pittsburgh, Artur Davis, California, Nashville, Jewish Issues, New Hampshire, Ohio, Boca Raton, Long Island, Northeast, Philadelphia, Anthony Weiner, Latino Issues, Florida, John McCain, Appalachia, South Central US, St. Louis, Kamala Harris, Louisiana, Montgomery County, Birmingham, Presidential Election, Kentucky, Texas, Queens, Pennsylvania, New York City, Deep South, Young Voters, Memphis, Governors, Cleveland, Iowa, Georgia, South Carolina, San Francisco, White Voters, Rnc, Michael Steele, Broward, Hip Hop, Duluth, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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Snooks and Booker: Memories of Mardi Gras

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Krewe of Oak, Carnival, New Orleans Musicians, Bobby Jindal, Live Green Orleans, Obama Stimulus Plan, Mardi Gras, Entertainment News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Rest in Peace Snooks. We lost New Orleans musician Snooks Eaglin this week, and when I asked my husband Jeff about his memories of their gigs back in...

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Best Records Of 2009! Already?

Sal Nunziato | Posted 03.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Led Zeppelin., New Orleans, Nashville, John Lennon, Mel Tillis, Julie Miller, Alligator Records, Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris, Palmetto Records, Patty Griffin, Johnny Copeland, Telarc Records, New West Records, Buddy Miller, Entertainment News
Sal Nunziato

Just three weeks into February and I am already overwhelmed with amazing new music.

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Fat Tuesday 2009 : The Date For Last Day Of Mardi Gras

Huffington Post | Posted 03.20.2009 | Home

Read More: New Orleans Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Fat Tuesday 2009, Fat Tuesday, Mardia Gras, The Date of Fat Tuesday 2009, Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday 2009, When Is Fat Tuesday 2009, Mardi Gras 2009, When Is the Last Day of Mardia Gras, Home News

The date of Fat Tuesday 2009 for Mardi Gras is February 24th. See below for more information about Fat Tuesday 2009....

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