How Tomorrow Moves| More...
 

New Orleans

Obama Asked "Why Do People Hate You?" By Fourth Grader (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Video, Town Hall, Obama Town Hall, Terence Scott, Barack Obama, Why Do People Hate You Obama, Obama Why Do People Hate You, Politics News

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...

Read Whole Story

Obama in New Orleans: Been and Gone and Got It Wrong

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, Politics News
Harry Shearer

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.

Read Post

Liveblogging Obama's Speech with New Orleans Ready for its Closeup

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Katrina, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, President Obama, Bobby Jindal, Bobby Jindal Booed, Politics News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

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.

Read Post

Obama New Orleans Trip: President's First Visit

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Katrina, Obama New Orleans Trip, New Orleans, Obama Hurricane Katrina, Obama in New Orleans, Obama New Orleans, Obama New Orleans Visit, Obama to New Orleans, Politics News

NEW ORLEANS — Insisting he's "just getting started," President Barack Obama defended his administration Thursday against complaints from some re...

Read Whole Story

New Orleans: What's Been Done, What's on the To-Do List

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama's Visit, Obama New Orleans, New Orleans Recovery, Harry Shearer on New Orleans, New Orleans-Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina, Rebuilding New Orleans, Politics News
Harry Shearer

In New Orleans, there have been notable steps forward in arts, education and entrepreneurship since Katrina. The bad news is that the "temporary" pumps installed for future floods do not, and cannot work.

Read Post

Obama In New Orleans: Rebuilding Still In Progress

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.15.2009 | Impact

Read More: Obama New Orleans, Barack Obama San Francisco, New Orleans, Barack Obama, Harry Shearer on New Orleans, Impact News

President Obama visited New Orleans Thursday morning for the first time in his presidency. His appearance focuses attention on a city that's still reb...

Read Whole Story

Obama's Visits -- Compare the Length of the Stays

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, Obama Visits New Orleans, San Francisco, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, Politics News
Harry Shearer

President Obama spends four whole hours tomorrow in New Orleans, and then 16 hours in San Francisco. They must have experienced a hell of a federal disaster there.

Read Post

New Orleans, Music, Vampires and Me

Michael Cerveris | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Music, New Orleans-Louisiana, Entertainment News
Michael Cerveris

I know firsthand how music can be the connective tissue in a community, and how here in New Orleans, it is a positive force for young people at an impressionable (and risky) point in their lives.

Read Post

Beth Butler Fired By ACORN; Director Of Louisiana ACORN Is Companion Of Founder Wade Rathke

The Times-Picayune | Gordon Russell | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, Beth Butler, Katrina Recovery, Who Is Beth Butler, Louisiana ACORN, Wade Rathke, Attorney General, Obama Itinerary, Obama Comments, Land, Obama, Real Estate, Acorn, Louisiana AG, Hurricane Katrina, Bertha Lewis, Embezzlement, Home News

Beth Butler, the longtime executive director of Lousiana ACORN, was terminated by the organization's national leadership Monday amid a power struggle ...

Read Whole Story

Bring the Nobel Peace Prize Home to New Orleans

Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina Deceased Victims List, Levees.org, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Sandy Rosenthal, President Obama, Politics News
Stacy Parker Aab

The president can bring the peace prize home early if he announces the creation of an 8/29 Commission to investigate Hurricane Katrina.

Read Post

Obama in New Orleans -- Is That All There Is?

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, Corps of Engineers, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Obama's New Orleans visit itinerary shows that he won't be addressing crucial disaster aversion issues. But he will be taking questions and meeting schoolchildren. Events, in short, that look good on TV.

Read Post

Harry Connick On Hey Hey: Blackface Peformance Offends Connick (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, New Orleans, Hey Hey, Jackson Jive, Hey Hey Reunion, Harry Connick Hey Hey, Daryl Sommers, Harry Connick Jr, Hey Hey It's Saturday, Race, Blackface, Conick, Jazz, Harry Connick Jounior, Jackson Five, Redface, Jackson, Entertainment News

An Australian act's blackface impression of The Jackson Five did not impress celebrity judge Harry Connick Jr. The American musician and actor was d...

Read Whole Story

Put Kids on Obama's New Orleans Tour

Mark Shriver | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Craig Fugate, Natural Disasters, Fema, Disaster Relief, President Obama, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, Politics News
Mark Shriver

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.

Read Post

New Orleans: Who Calls the Shots?

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, Gulf Coast Recovery, Politics News
Harry Shearer

One day before the office was to expire, President Obama extended the life of the Gulf Coast Recovery "Czar" (don't tell Glenn Beck) for another six months.

Read Post

Obama to New Orleans: Hold On, I'm Coming

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Like a rock or pop act that makes its audience wait till the encore to hear the Big Hit, Obama has made New Orleans wait until mid- or late-October for the long-promised presidential visit to the Crescent City.

Read Post

No On Abortions, Yes On Bill, Says GOP Congressman Cao

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Cao, Louisiana, Congresswoman Lois Capps, Obama Abortion, Obama, Congress, Healthcare, Bill 3200, Abortion Rights, President Obama Speech, Abortion, Congressman Cao, Joint Session of Congress, Anti-Abortion, Congressional Democrats, Katrina, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Republican, Health Care, Capps Amendment, Reversing Roe vs Wade, Roe vs Wade, Public Option, Politics News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

"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."

Read Post

Obama's Plate is Not Too Full After All

Harry Shearer | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Maria Garzino, Chicago Olympic Bid, Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans Levees, Obama New Orleans, New Orleans, Barack Obama, Politics News
Harry Shearer

I found Obama's Olympics lobbying to be the ultimate rebuke to the people of New Orleans regarding his torpor when it comes to remedying the aftermath of the failure of the federal levees four years ago.

Read Post

Philippines Notebook: A National Disaster Brings Death and Blame

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Floods, New Orleans, Typhoons, Tropical-Storm-Ketsana, Manila, Poverty, Mikey Arroyo, Gloria Arroyo, National Disasters, Ketsana, Hurrican Katrina, Tropical Storm Ketsana, Katrina, Asia, Philippines, Ondoy, World News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

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.

Read Post

Interview: Visionary Entertainer Josh Charles

2morrowknight | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Jelly Roll Morton, Healing Time, Professor Longhair, R&b, Preservation Resource Center, Music, Josh Charles, Twitter, Jazz, Lil Wayne, Dr. John, Facebook, Gregg Rubin, Neville Brothers, Louis Armstrong, Healing Time Foundation, Zydeco, Katrina, Blues, Funk, Rock & Roll, Grammy Award, Gospel, Wynton Marsalis, Motown, Dixieland, Entertainment News
2morrowknight

"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."

Read Post

Then There Were 3: Perry on New Orleans Mayoral Race

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: NewOrleans.Com, New Orleans Mayor, New Orleans, James Perry, Msnbc, Melissa Harris Lacewell, Louisiana, Ray Nagin, Politics News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

With New Orleans mayoral qualification coming up in just over two months and the primary in four, it's becoming late in the day for a surprise contender.

Read Post

New Orleans Jail Conditions Violate Inmates' Rights: Department Of Justice Report

AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Justice Department Report New Orleans Prisons, New Orleans Jail, Orleans Parish Prison Conditions, New Orleans Katrina, New Orleans Prison Conditions, Department of Justice, Hurricane Katrina, Orleans Parish Prison, Prison Inmates' Rights, Politics News

NEW ORLEANS — Violent guards, understaffing and unsanitary conditions violate the constitutional rights of inmates at a New Orleans jail heavily...

Read Whole Story

Compact Reviews Of This Week's Compact Discs, For Those Who Still Care #4

Sal Nunziato | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Brian Wilson, New Orleans, Zooey Deschanel, Stephen Stills., Jolie Holland, Beaties Boys, The Beach Boys, Harry Connick Jr, Loudon Wainwright III, Pub-Rock, David Gray, The Seeds, Captain Beefheart Frank Zappa, Arthur Lee, Ellis Marsalis, The Mamas & the Papas, She & Him, The Doors, Pearl Jam, M.Ward, My Morning Jacket, Annie Lennox, James Booker, The Byrds, Edd & the Hot Rods, Bright Eyes, Entertainment News
Sal Nunziato

Reviewed: The Beastie Boys, Harry Connick, Jr., Eddie & the Hot Rods, David Gray, Manassas, Monsters of Folk, Pearl Jam.

Read Post

GDP an Inaccurate Measure of Stark Disparities in United States, Fails to Show Whole Picture in Louisiana

Sarah Burd-Sharps | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Gdp, Louisiana, New Orleans-Louisiana, New Orleans Housing, Rebuilding New Orleans, Politics News
Sarah Burd-Sharps

Recovery funds must be directed not just to rebuild the physical infrastructure of Louisiana, but also to construct a new infrastructure of opportunity to serve the next generation of Gulf coast residents.

Read Post

Life Span Of African-Americans In New Orleans Rivals North Korea's

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Statistics, America, Katrina, Race, American Human Development Project, Louisiana, Life Expectancy Statistics, Hurricane Katrina, Life Expectancy, African-Americans, North Korea, Human Development Project Louisiana, Politics News

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 ...

Read Whole Story

Screaming Joe Wilson: Newt Gingrich's Frankenstein

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Smith, 1994 Elections, Wall Street Bailout, New Orleans, National Security, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Frankenstein, Newt Gingrich, Wall Street Bonuses, Rep. Joe Wilson, War Profiteering, Contract With America, Pakistan Democracy, Afghanistan War, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News
Lorelei Kelly

If congressional politics are inside baseball, Newt Gingrich completely upended the playing field. Joe Wilson isn't an accident, he's an outcome.

Read Post