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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.
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.
Harry Shearer | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
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.
Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago
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?
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.
AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive...
HuffPost | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.20.2009 | Impact
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Harry Shearer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
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?
Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...
Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact
After Hurricane Katrina, many schools stopped offering music programs due to budget cuts. New Orleans native Derrick Tabb keeps students off the stree...
Alex Geana | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
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.
Harry Shearer | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
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.
Harry Shearer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
New Orleanians are right to worry about what the Corps of Engineers is doing in the "rebuilding" of the levee-floodwall system.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment
The Voodoo Music Experience just wrapped its 11th year, and volume-wise it goes to 11 (to borrow a phrase from Spinal Tap).
Harry Shearer | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
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.
AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home
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...
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.26.2009 | Denver
After gentrification the problems populating inner-city neighborhoods like Five Points aren't solved. They just relocate.
Paul Brown | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green
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...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
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.
Paul Brown | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Two Christian religious leaders combined yesterday to warn that time was running out for the life of the planet.
Paul Brown | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green
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.
Katherine Gustafson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
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.
AP | BRETT MARTEL | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
NEW ORLEANS — Who dat knew them Saints were this good? Drew Brees torched the Giants' league-leading defense, swarming Saints defenders ruined ...
Harry Shearer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Never too late to start up. There is, in line with this spirit of urgency, a "new" White House working group on issues of coastal restoration in Mississippi and Louisiana. Warp speed, baby.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
At a town hall meeting in New Orleans Thursday, fourth-grader Terrence Scott earnestly asked the question that has probably been on many people's mind...
Harry Shearer | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
For those of us looking for even the semblance of substance in President Obama's Town Hall meeting in New Orleans, frankly, he could have saved the jet fuel.
Richard Walden | Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact