Today, New Years Day, many articles are covering the most memorable events of the decade. Naturally, they all include the metro New Orleans flood.
HuffPost | Victoria Fine | Posted 12.30.2009 | Impact
The ups and downs of the last 10 years have been marked by dozens of generous acts that have inspired others, helped those in need and set a standard ...
Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 12.21.2009 | Green
Here's the bad news about the quiet, almost peaceful hurricane season in 2009: Right away, people start thinking this is the norm. They start to relax and maybe even make fun of hurricanes.
Robbie Vorhaus | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books
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Sandy Rosenthal | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics
The majority of Americans live in counties protected by levees, and the most important ones are built by the US Army Corps of Engineers, whose failure in Louisiana was presumably not an isolated event.
ProPublica | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics
During the turbulent days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, New Orleans police shot 10 civilians, at least four of whom died, according to interv...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
There's a Category 5 storm about to make landfall, and the president and the officials in charge of preparing for the approaching disaster don't seem to be particularly worried. Sound familiar?
Harry Shearer | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
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.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
CNN and MSNBC are spending much of today focused on the 60,000 abandoned homes, the levees only one third of the way into readiness for a 100-year flood and more than 100,000 former residents not in New Orleans.
Mark Shriver | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Katrina affected everybody in New Orleans, but the long term effects of days in crowded shelters, months of homelessness, and years of changing schools have proved especially destructive to children.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
"Basically, I do agree with the President that we need some kind of health care reform," says Anh in a Q and A. "Now, what kind of reform are we going to get? That is the question."
Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
A ratings chase and a revenue chase combine to coarsen the debate. This is our new reality -- and some days it looks so ugly one could reasonably turn away from civic life. But we don't.
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 11.27.2009 | World
An overburdened city is an overburdened city and on Saturday, regardless of whether you lived in a shanty town or in a utilities-paying neighborhood, it was time to pay the price.
2morrowknight | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment
"When you write a song, you never know how it will evolve," Charles said. "I've been approached by people who are recovering from cancer and they have shared stories with me of how 'Healing Time' has helped them."
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
The average life span for African-Americans living in New Orleans is nearly as low as average life expectancy in North Korea, according to A Portrait ...
James Boyce | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
As emotional as 9/11 was for all of us, nothing compares to what families who lost a loved one experienced that day. A fact that is totally lost on Glenn Beck.
Michael Bialas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment
Other than the fact that the lead character is a damaged detective, this film bears little resemblance to the Abel Ferrara-directed 1992 NC-17 movie that starred Harvey Keitel.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Van Jones was the best person for the job he just relinquished. He would have helped Republican lawmakers in their districts. He would have created jobs. He would have made a difference.
The Washington Post | Howard Schneider | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
The office door has a steel vault veneer, and Shari Arison -- controlling stockholder in Israel's largest bank and its largest construction company, h...
CNN Political Ticker | Martina Stewart | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
A prominent Democrat who is also a Louisiana native said Sunday he was somewhat offended that President Obama has yet to pay a visit to New Orleans, ...
New York Times | CAMPBELL ROBERTSON | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
Houses still sit empty, residents are still scattered and streets still echo with the sounds of hammers and power saws. But on the fourth anniversary ...
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
OAK BLUFFS, Mass. — President Barack Obama marked the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday by pledging to make sure that turf war...
Sharon Hanshaw | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
Let's live up to our responsibilities, America. Let's not wait for the next devastating Hurricane Katrina to come before we act.
ProPublica | Sheri Fink | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home
The smell of death was overpowering the moment a relief worker cracked open one of the hospital chapel's wooden doors. Inside, more than a dozen bodie...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment
Though his latest album The Way I See It was released last year, Saadiq still is touring pretty much non-stop. He took a quick break from his schedule for this interview.
Sandy Rosenthal | Posted 01.01.2010 | Politics