2 Tragedies Lead To An Unlikely Bond
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One is a low-lying river city built on a swamp basin, a multicultural melting pot known the world over for legendary excesses, fr...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One is a low-lying river city built on a swamp basin, a multicultural melting pot known the world over for legendary excesses, fr...
Posted 01.19.2012
Fans of the acclaimed HBO drama "Treme" will have to wait longer than expected for the third season of David Simon's tale of life in post-Katrina New ...
Rev. Otis Moss III | Posted 02.01.2012
Many times God will bring out new colors when we experience the blues of a storm -- we must allow, the tears of God to beat across the canvas of our soul and God will paint a new picture in our spirit.
Posted 11.16.2011
One lucky eBay bidder will win a chance to meet Brad Pitt -- and all for a good cause. But the clock is ticking! The bidding closes tonight, with t...
Matt Petersen | Posted 10.31.2011
At the outset of my journey to help rebuild New Orleans green in early September 2005, many thought I was crazy to think I could help this city that was so deeply devastated.
Floyd J. Malveaux, M.D., Ph.D. | Posted 10.30.2011
The disappearance of reliable healthcare services in New Orleans left many children with asthma no choice but to seek out treatment in emergency rooms across town -- if they seek care at all.
Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011
We probably should have stayed in New Orleans. At the end of a brief Christmas holiday there, last week's blizzard was edging up the east coast and w...
Allison Good | Posted 11.17.2011
If you could go back to mid-August 2005 and live your life from there, would you do it? A friend asked me this question as we discussed the upcoming fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011
I was working in Ghana when Katrina occurred. The reaction of my Ghanaian coworker was, "America will rebuild New Orleans in no time!" He then qualified his statement: "America could rebuild New Orleans in no time, if it wanted to."
Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011
No book has told the story of Katrina as plainly and as painfully as Overcoming Katrina. These narratives perform one of history's most important functions: to acknowledge the reality of experience.
Posted 05.25.2011
The cast of MTV's "The Real World: New Orleans" has partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), one of the nation's largest environme...
Posted 05.25.2011
Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, homeowners like Barnet Perkins are still trying to repair the damage. However, with other c...
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama has been asked to weigh in on the portentous Colts v. Saints Super Bowl matchup.
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Sarah Burd-Sharps | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Ted Johnson | Posted 11.17.2011
Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation is among a consortium applying for federal stimulus money that could expand his effort to rebuild homes in New Orleans.
treehugger.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" Foundation has released a new set of duplex designs for New Orleans, by yet another round of big name architects from arou...
Paul Hogarth | Posted 05.25.2011
10. Graceland is Less Opulent than Expected: The King of Rock 'n' Roll's famous home was surprisingly quite modest.
Matt Petersen | Posted 05.25.2011
As the Congress deliberates the largest stimulus package in history, there is no single better investment that we can make than to help maximize the potential learning and productivity of our children.
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011
FEMA was the poster child for federal incompetence, according to the consensus media narrative of the New Orleans flooding disaster. But the true poster child was and is the US Army Corps of Engineers.
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Those who love New Orleans say Hurricane Gustav is proof that the billions of dollars spent to protect the city and bring it back t...
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.25.2011
It's more than obvious: large portions of New Orleans will never be rebuilt. As my mom put it, "You're nothing if you're poor and black. You're on your own." Three years after Katrina, that reality hasn't changed.
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011
In each, nature had a part, but man-made engineering failures created catastrophic results. And in each, the response has been the same.
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | ALAN SCHER ZAGIER | Posted 05.12.2012