McCain is in the midst of trying to give voters the impression that he is an agent of change, but when the American people needed him to show some leadership, he failed.
John Eskow | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
McCain's speech was a miscalculation of stunning proportions -- not just by McCain, but by the once-fearsome Republican strategists.
Harry Shearer | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics
In each, nature had a part, but man-made engineering failures created catastrophic results. And in each, the response has been the same.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
A dumpster load of money has either been allocated or earmarked for New Orleans, but where is the money? It sure as heck isn't in the lower ninth, which now resembles a cow pasture.
John McQuaid | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
New Orleans must be seen as a whole, part of a larger environment. If that's going to happen, it desperately needs more competent government and better urban planning -- not less.
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
Gee, I wonder how a government gets to the point where it's more interested in the preservation of its own power than in relieving the suffering of its people in the wake of a disaster.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
You would think that all of Bush's follies in New Orleans would guarantee that the Crescent City would vote Democratic this November. Don't be too sure.
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
When people outside New Orleans ask, "what happened to all the federal money?", the question is echoed by those in the city. Here's one answer.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.14.2008 | Entertainment
While boarding a helicopter in Monaco, Brad Pitt's new tattoo was unveiled. Here are some potential tattoo follow-ups (more suggestions are welcome).
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
New Orleans made the good kind of news this past week -- what didn't make national news, though, was a new court decision.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.05.2008 | Entertainment
Friday afternoon New Orleans drummer Herlin Riley stopped by New Orleans' WWOZ studio for Bob French's show with Dr. John, otherwise known as Mac Rebe...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.03.2008 | Entertainment
Jazzfest audiences now include a mix of those who lost their houses to the levee failure and have not come back, like Aaron, and those who pioneered New Orleans recovery.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.30.2008 | Home
Senator McCain's tossed off semi-proposal to "tear down the Ninth Ward" if needs be is redundant at best. The tearing down was already done by a massive federal levee failure almost three years ago.
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics
Given McCain's record, you'll have to forgive me for skeptically viewing his New Orleans tour as a serious attempt to raise attention to the issue of poverty and reach out to black voters.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.26.2008 | Entertainment
Welcome to virtual New Orleans. It's a cool day, wild parrots are screeching in the back yard and we're waiting to see if it rains before heading to the racetrack.
Mona Gable | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics
Superdelegates who haven't yet declared for Obama or Hillary are waiting it out under the pretense of letting the remaining voters have their say. That's all very democratic of them, but aren't they ignoring something?
Linda Hansen | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home
McCain admits he wooed firebrand Texas Pastor John Hagee. Yet it's Obama who's weathering the religious-rhetoric storm. Maybe that's because Republicans are expected to dabble in God-fearing hate.
John McQuaid | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Does McCain really understand the city's predicament? That is, if he's elected will we get more than just some good rhetoric? Words can't hold back the sea.
Harry Shearer | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
John Barry is not making the "you broke it, you fix it" argument relative to the Corps of Engineers' poor design and construction work that catastrophically failed in 2005; his timeframe goes back decades.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home
The scandal this time is that there's no scandal. The leak John McCain should be addressing in New Orleans is the one at the 17th Street Canal Floodwall, the same one that was leaking before Katrina.
Harry Shearer | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, the Times-Picayune carried a very restrained story about a potentially inflammatory subject: the Corps of Engineers has discovered a persistent leak in the 17th St. Canal floodwall.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living
Water stalks southern Louisiana like a panther seeking its prey. Hurricane Katrina was the kill, but the water never relents -- always moving, sometimes retreating, forever flowing.
Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living
This weekend, more than 10,000 women gathered in New Orleans to transform the Superdome into what creator Eve Ensler named "SuperLove."
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home
In the vein of Stephen Colbert, imagine getting the candidates to all sign a Rebuild New Orleans pledge. After the race, their surplus campaign funds would go directly to rebuild New Orleans.
John L. Rosenthal | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Photographs not only remember, they register surprise. And what surprised me most about the Ninth Ward were the left-over particulars of a multi-layered human geography.
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Greg Saunders | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics