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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...

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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

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

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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

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.

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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 ...

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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

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

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Turning Tragedy Into Compassionate Action

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: National Day of Service, 9/11 Anniversary, New Orleans, Volunteering, Hurricane Katrina, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Ted Kennedy, New York News

I can think of no greater tribute to the victims of September 11th than in the positive and inspirational actions that millions of Americans have taken on their behalf both today and year round.

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Disorder on the Border: Trashing the Law in the Name of Immigration Deterrence

Randall Amster | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

The strategy of deterrence that drives both border enforcement and crackdowns on humanitarians is fundamentally flawed.

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Bad Lieutenant: Telluride Witnesses a Case of Cage Rage

Michael Bialas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Katrina, Eva Mendes, Movie, Colorado, Xzibit, Val Kilmer, Nicolas Cage, Harvey Keitel, Telluride Film Festival, Entertainment News

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.

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Bobby Jindal: Soaring to New Heights For New Orleans

Patrick Sauer | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Helicopters, New Orleans, Harry Shearer, Louisiana, Separation of Church and State, Bobby Jindal, Evangelicals, Southern Decadence, Parishes, George W. Bush, Fema, Hurricane Katrina, Army Corps of Engineers, Barack Obama, Big Easy, Superdome, Comedy News

When I was a teenager, I overcame my Hindu upbringing to become a Catholic. Jesus spoke to me and told me Vishnu doesn't vote.

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New Orleans' Green Makeover

TIME | Bryan Walsh Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009 | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Green New Orleans, Green Building, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Green News

Sustainable development groups that range from the international nonprofit Global Green to earth-friendly celebrities like Brad Pitt descended on New ...

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New Orleans Sees An Opportunity To Improve On Its Past

New York Times | CAMPBELL ROBERTSON | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Katrina Anniversary, Katrina, New Orleans, Home News

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 ...

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Between Brad Pitt and a Pitfall: New Orleans 4 Years Later

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, Fema, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Katrina Anniversary, Dr. John, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt, The Giving Life, Living News

These are the two tales of New Orleans recovery four years after Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi and New Orleans levees imploded. What has been done and what is still undone.

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Still Fiddling While New Orleans Drowns

John McQuaid | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Climate Change, Congress, New Orleans Convention Center, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News

Time after time, various government agencies have responded haphazardly, doing just enough to make people in New Orleans feel safe again, but not enough to prevent the next big disaster.

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Four Years Later, Let's End the Human Rights Crisis in KatrinaRitaVille

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Aclu, Fema, Hurricanes, Gulf Coast Recovery, Gulf Coast Civic Works Act, Naacp, Human Rights Violations, Obama New Orleans, Infrastructure, Human Rights, Louisiana, New Orleans Recovery, Lower Ninth Ward, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Nancy Pelosi, Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast, Politics News

The federal government still has a long fight ahead to make good on promises to rebuild a stronger, safer and more equitable Gulf Coast.

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Economic Hit Men and the Next Drowning of New Orleans

Greg Palast | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, New Orleans, Greg Palast, Environment, Oil, America's Wetland, Pipelines, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Chevron, Lousiana State University, Ivor Van Heerden, Katrina Anniversary, Shell, Politics News

Ivor van Heerden is the professor who warned the levees of New Orleans were ready to blow -- months and years before Katrina did the job. For being right, he was rewarded with ... getting fired.

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Katrina's Children -- Still Struggling

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Education, Mental Health, Storm, Hurricane Katrina, Fema, Families, Child Health, Barack Obama, Politics News

Life is still not back to normal four years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.

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Protecting Homeowners the Right Course of Action

Rep. Gene Taylor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homeowner Insurance, Gulf Coast, New Orleans, Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina, Gene Taylor, Politics News

In the Gulf Coast, the ever-escalating costs of insurance, post-Katrina, have home and business owners facing daunting prospects for protecting their piece of the American Dream.

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Record Casts New Light On Doctors, Nurses Involved In Katrina Hospital Deaths

ProPublica | Sheri Fink | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Tenet, New Orleans, Louisiana, Memorial Hospital, Memorial Hospital and Katrina, Morphine, Katrina Anniversary, Dr. Anna Pou, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Uptown New Orleans, Lifecare, Memorial Medical Center, Euthanasia, Health Care, Memorial Hostpiatl and Hurricane Katrina, Home News

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...

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Katrina Nation

Melissa Harris-Lacewell and James Perry | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News

We are all living in Katrina Nation now. And it is time to confront the lessons of New Orleans or risk that our national recovery will be similarly delayed and incomplete.

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Playing the Inside Game -- A Cautionary Tale

Harry Shearer | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, Army Corps of Engineers, Rebuilding New Orleans, Katrina Anniversary, Obama New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina Anniversary, Politics News

New Orleans is watching a second consecutive president trash his promises to "rebuild it better." Obama won't even do the obligatory photo-op in the city on Saturday's anniversary. It's more of the same.

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Paul Henry Boritzer Convicted For Pretending To Be Federal Air Marshal, Threatening JetBlue Attendant

AP | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York

Read More: New Orleans, Difficult Passenger, Jet Blue Unruly Passenger, Jet Blue, Louisianna, Paul Henry Boritzer, Difficult Plane Passenger, New York News

NEW ORLEANS � A federal jury has convicted a New York man of charges he pretended to be a federal air marshal and threatened a JetBlue flight attend...

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An Interview with Raphael Saadiq Plus This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Albert King, The Four Tops, Duffy, Raphael Saadiq, Earth Wind & Fire, Motown Records, Whitney Houston, Second Line, Stevie Wonder, Nba, Joss Stone, Funk, Brian Grant, Katrina, Reggae, Dark Side of the Moon, Stax Records, CJ Hilton, Motown, Anthony Hayes, John Legend, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Bob Marley, Louisiana, Stax, Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige, The Roots, Gospel, Lionel Richie, Amy Winehouse, The Funk Brothers, The Bee Gees, D'Angelo, Jimmy Cliff, Macy Gray, Paul Riser, Young Spodie, Entertainment News, Jack Ashford, Youtube, Pink Floyd, Shia LeBeouf, Snoop Dogg, Smokey Robinson, Seal, Marvin Gaye, Q-Tip, Babyface, Ludacric, Third Eye Blind, Entertainment News

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.

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The Radical Choice this Katrina Anniversary: Celebrate

Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Katrina, New Orleans First Responders., Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Recovery, New Orleans Police Department, Natural Disasters, Politics News

I've learned that while no one in New Orleans or the diaspora wants to be forgotten, no one wants their lives reduced to mere victimhood either.

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Brad Pitt's Mayoral Platform: No Religion, Legalizing Pot And Gay Marriage (VIDEO)

Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Brad Pitt, Video, Marijuana, Gay Marriage, Brad Pitt New Orleans Mayor, Brad Pitt Today Show, Entertainment News

Brad Pitt for mayor! Pitt's interview with Ann Curry aired on Thursday's 'Today' show, and New Orleans' most prominent Katrina rebuilder thanks to ...

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Julie & Julia: When the World Writes You Back

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.08.2009 | Entertainment

No matter what twists we see in Publishing 2.0, a love story running through Julie & Julia is that sometimes, after the solitary act of writing, the world writes you back.

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