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What Bush Said in New Orleans Today, and What He Didn't Say

Harry Shearer | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, George W. Bush, George Bush, Hurricane Katrina, President Bush, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News
Harry Shearer

The president's speechwriters found it advisable to ignore three independent forensic engineering studies and the Corps of Engineers' own 6000-page report.

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Smokey on the Water: Rock Star Camp Rolls Into New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 08.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, Furnishing Our Neighbors, New Orleans Musicians Relief FUnd, Global Green, Ringo Starr, Cranston Clements, Shamarr Allen, Mark Hudson, Brad Pitt, Green Living, Entertainment News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Mark Hudson and Shamarr Allen jam at Rock Fantasy Camp When Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp rolled into New Orleans, the rock star counselors asked the N...

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New Orleans' Musicians Take Message to DNC and RNC

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 08.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Democratic Convention, New Orleans, Hurrican Recovery, Rnc, Jazz, Cyril Neville, Irma Thomas, Dnc, Wetlands, Blues, Music, Tab Benoit, Entertainment News
Georgianne Nienaber

On August 24 Tab Benoit and the Voice of the Wetlands All Stars have accomplished something that is quite remarkable -- they will open the Democratic Convention.

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What Is Hip? I Say It's Maria Muldaur, Irma Thomas, and Taj Mahal

Sal Nunziato | Posted 08.09.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Ellis Marsalis, Brooklyn Vegan, Los Lobos, Norah Jones, Bon Iver, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, New Releases, Heads Up, Los Obos, Rounder Records, Conor Oberst, Iron & Wine, Telarc, Dinah Washingotn, Plain White T's, Entertainment News
Sal Nunziato

So while we get excited about Conor Oberst and Iron & Wine, can't we make a little room for Maria Muldaur, Irma Thomas, and Taj Mahal without losing street cred? I say "YES!"

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Green Furniture Program ReDefines 8/29 in New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Living, New Orleans, Furnishing Our Neighbors, New Orleans Musicians Relief FUnd, ReDefine 8/29, Green News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

The first blog I ever wrote for the Huffington Post was two years ago for the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund's ReDefine 8/29 program, so watching...

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New Orleans: Why I Stay

DivineCaroline.com | Amy Dalton | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Giving Life, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, divinecaroline.com, Living News

At some point in my early adult life I realized a few things about life. I found out that I can overcome hardship if I don't let it get the best of me...

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Climate Change and Race: Naked Truths & Ugly Politics

David Sassoon | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Climate Change, John McCain, Greenhouse Gases, Barack Obama, Politics News
David Sassoon

And so, as the race issue briefly erupted front and center in the presidential campaign last week, with McCain accusing Obama of playing the "race card", it also emerged in the climate debate at the same time. Curious.

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Why Not Trust The Corps? They're "Scrambling"

Harry Shearer | Posted 08.02.2008 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Home News
Harry Shearer

With the continued reports of water leaking and puddling in backyards on the supposedly protected side of the 17th St. Canal -- reports the Corps is still scrambling (my word) to explain -- New Orleans is once again forced to ask: is this the best America can do?

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Some Hounds from St. Bernard (and some cats)

Harry Shearer | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Animal Adoption, Politics News
Harry Shearer

The St. Bernard Parish animal shelter, just east of New Orleans, has run out of room, and a lot of dogs and cats either have to be adopted or....you know the rest.

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Louisiana's Landrieu Dogs FEMA and Protects Fourth Estate

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Congress, Fema Trailers, Fema, Freedom of Press, Mary Landrieu, Louisiana, Accountability, Politics News
Georgianne Nienaber

As a journalist who works regularly in Africa, I take press freedoms pretty seriously.

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Republicans See The Public As Losers and Whiners

Dave Johnson | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Losers, Recession, Whiners, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Dave Johnson

Republicans hate government by the people. According to them, if you are not rich you are a "loser" who deserves nothing because you are not "contributing" to the corporate economy.

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A Plea for the Presumptives

Isabel Cowles | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, New Orleans, Green, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, When the Levees Broke, Green News
Isabel Cowles

Dear Mssrs. McCain and Obama-- I know you have a lot of pressing issues to deal with on this long slog to the White House. Your path is rife wit...

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Black in America on CNN: Are We There Yet?

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 07.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Civil Rights, Pbs, Public Schools, New Orleans, Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Healthy Living, Education, Inner City Obama, Race, Barck Obama, AIDS Washington D.C., Cnn, Race Relations, Poverty and Health, Cable News, Media News
Raymond Leon Roker

For blacks, it is a call to arms, a celebration of ingenuity, from the breakfast table to the church, to the classroom, to the street. For whites, Black in America has to be just as complicated to watch.

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Greening Hollywood: Sen. John Edwards Gets His Green On

Paige Donner | Posted 07.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, New Orleans, 9th Ward, Energy Efficiency, Brad Pitt, Renewable Energy Sources, Climate Change, Make It Right, Sustainable Design, Coastal Flooding, Senator John Edwards, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Green USA, Green News
Paige Donner

Former Presidential candidate and Democrat from North Carolina, Senator John Edwards joined Santa Monica based Global Green USA Friday as a co-chairma...

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Louisiana's "Road Home"--the Goalposts Keep Moving

Harry Shearer | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Federal Aid to Katrina Victims, New Orleans Housing, Katrina, Fema, Times-Picayune, Politics News
Harry Shearer

For those outside New Orleans who ask, "what happened to all the Federal money down there?", a guide appears in the Times-Picayune explaining the labyrinth homeowners have had to navigate to get their Road Home grant.

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Friday Talking Points [40] -- Obama Shines, McCain Whines

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Gaffe, Gop, Bill of Rights, First Amendment, Speech, Giants, Atlas, Pakistan, Berlin, Czechoslovakia, Free Speech, Whine, Canada, Democratic, Iraq, Campaign, National Convention, Minimum Wage, Redskins, Oil Spill, 2008, Midotw, Victory Column, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Democratic National Convention, Mississippi, Risk, Dncc, Tiergarten, John McCain, Germany, Football, Whiny, Oil Rig, Democrat, 2008 Elections, Democratic National Convention Committee, 08, Photo-Op, Nfl, Democrats, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, 08 Election, Senior Moment, Presidential, Elections, Desperation, Free Speech Zones, 08 Campaign, Mddotw, Talking Heads, Convention, 2008 Presidential Race, Afghanistan, Burning Down the House, Mississippi River, Democrat-Lite, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Be careful what you wish for, John. That seems to be the message of the week for Senator John McCain. He took some campaign consultant's idea a few w...

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Oil of Delay: McCain Cancels Louisiana Trip After Barge Spill

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, New Orleans Oil Spill, John McCain, Oil Spill, Mississippi River, Oil, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

McCain had been planning to visit an offshore rig on this New Orleans junket, but it's not the image a presidential candidate wants in the middle of an environmental nightmare.

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Guitar Virtuoso Jimmy Robinson at New Orleans' Ogden: "After Hours"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 07.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Susan Cowsill, New Orleans, Katrina, Arts, Guitar, Music, Jimmy Robinson, Ogden Museum, Southern Art, Entertainment News
Georgianne Nienaber

"Vibrating Strings" is a solo acoustic tour de force for electric guitar virtuoso Jimmy Robinson, who established his solid reputation with Woodenhead and Twangorama.

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Eyes in My Eyes

Terry Marotta | Posted 07.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Boston, New Orleans, Dialects, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Katrina, Accents, Diversity, Regional Dialects, Living News
Terry Marotta

I had a lesson in diversity last week in New Orleans, where I found myself so completely out of my element that when a couple of young women kept calling me "Ma'am" I took their tone for sarcastic.

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Gay Weddings and 32 Funerals: Remembering the UpStairs Lounge Fire

Erik Ose | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Glbt, Gay History, Louisiana, Gay Pride Weekend, Metropolitan Community Church, Lesbian, Same-Sex Marriage, UpStairs Lounge, 1973, Firebombing, Gay, Fire, GLBT History, California, Anti-Gay Violence, Mcc, 2008, California Supreme Court, Homophobia, Christianity, June 24 1973, Bigotry, Gay Marriage, Rip, Gay Rights, Politics News
Erik Ose

To fully understand recent events, it's important to remember a tragedy that happened thirty-five years ago, and how much things have changed for gays and lesbians since then.

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FEMA's Trailers: The Cheapest, The Most Toxic

Harry Shearer | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Fema Trailers, Fema, Fema Formaldehyde, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Katrina Mismanagement, Katrina, Formaldehyde Fumes, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Another shoe dropped in the FEMA trailer scandal this week, with the publication of a report pinpointing why so many New Orleanians inhaled such high levels of formaldehyde fumes for so long.

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Jammin' Generosity Gets Guitars to Young Rockers

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, NOLA.Com, Chris Rose, Times Picayune, The Giving Life, Nomrf, New Orleans Musicians, New Orleans Musicians Relief FUnd, Musicians, Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Today nola.com's Chris Rose described the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund guitar transfer (story here). Next month our charity is passing along a do...

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Floods: Update, New Orleans Examining Levee Seepage

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Floods, Katrina, New Orleans, Levees, 17th Street Canal, Vice President Dick Cheney, Army Corps of Engineers, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

Corps engineers in New Orleans maintain that the seepage is not cause for alarm.

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Congress' (and the President's) Priorities: ABNO

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Iraq War Funding Bill, Iraq War, Iraq Spending, Anything but New Orleans, Iraq Supplemental, Cost of the War, Iraq, Politics News
Harry Shearer

That would be "Anything But New Orleans", as reflected in the whopping bill, ostensibly to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with a number of other domestic "priorities."

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New Orleans Now

Suzette Standring | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, Ninth Ward, Recovery, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Flood, Katrina, Survivors, Standring, Suzette, Living News
Suzette Standring

New Orleans is like a newly grime-free Sistine Chapel. It's hard to believe its near-death experience was only three years ago.

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