The Mose Project in Venice Saving Venice from High Water Italy Down Under Another good map database Index of /afs/athena/course/4/4.196/www MIT I obviously haven’t gone through this whole site but plan to spend a good bit of time here. My favorite part so far is the annual cycle of folk activities in the Atchafalaya Basin….
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Rep. Dennis Hastert Enemy to the Peoples and Cultures of New Orleans and South Louisiana E-mail: http://www.house.gov/hastert/write1.shtml Homepage: http://www.house.gov/hastert/index.shtml 2304 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-2976 Fax: 202-225-0697 He has said… In reference to spending on the recovery: “I don’t know. That doesn’t make sense to me.” And… “It looks like a…
Enemies of the State
I have toyed with this idea for a while and wasn’t inspired to actually put it together until I read this editorial published the day after America’s birthday. In it, the author, Robert M. Thorson, blatantly speaks out against the recovery of the city and demands that no further federal money be spent attempting to…
Five Questions w/ Chuck Watson
Chuck Watson in the TSU-18 Centrifuge, Cosmonaut Training Centre, “Star City,” outside Moscow I sent an e-mail recently to Chuck Watson, Director of Research and Development for Kinetic Analysis Corporation which develops and runs hurricane damage models. Watson was a source for this story ran on Nola.com that I blogged about several weeks back. Below…
You’re Just Saying That Because You’re From Pensacola
This post over at b. rox is such an indicator. I encourage everyone to read it because it is is such a pristine and well-written example of how cultures clash here in New Orleans. Bart is a man who publicly admonished the mayor in font of a crowd of 5000 people back in January and…
Shavers’ Killer Walks
Case dismissed in Shavers murder Somewhere in this city, there is a mother who has instilled in her daughter that brutality is more powerful than justice, that threats are stronger than truth and crime can overpwer community.
Liens du Moment 6/26
The Socialist State of New Orleans Private dollars leading recovery of New Orleans Christian-Science Monitor Our loss, their gain. New Orleans Sees Biggest Population Loss in U.S., Census Says Bloomberg Awwwwww… Brees feels at home in New Orleans News and Courier
Chris Roberts
I asked around the Web a little, trying to locate some info about Chris Roberts, the man killed last Sunday on Esplanade. Here is what I could find. The good people at Nolaagainstcrime.com have more information up. I’ve heard nothing about how the investigation into his murder is going. Nor have I heard anything yet…
World’s Smallest Magician
Couldn’t let this one get by… Irwin Royes, the World’s Smallest Magician, will be at Hubbell Library on Wednesday, June 27, at 10:30 am. “He’ll mystify your eyes, and tickle your funny bone. Come see for yourself why Irwin Royes is one of our favorite performers. You don’t want to miss this one!” The Hubbell…
Ignorance + Anonymity = Nola.com Comments
Since Nola.com began allowing its users to post unmoderated comments on the official Web site of the Times-Picayune, the results have been a fine example of how unreasonable many of our fellow citizens can be. When given a venue to freely and anonymously express their stupidity along with the release of any judgment on the…