Category: Liens

This is just a reminder that New Orleans will be featured on American Experience for the next few nights on PBS American Experience | New Oleans PBS From the “obvious” department… New Orleans shuns trans fats ‘ban wagon’ AP Don’t say the Krewe of Tow didn’t warn ya! New Orleans Tow Trucks Will Pull During…

The Cos comes back to John McDonogh. Cosby visits New Orleans school USA Today MySpace page for Kiwanza Mackie, innocent bystander in a fatal Jan. 29 shooting in Terrytown. U cOuld thinK whaT u ThiNk BuT i KnOw WhAt I kNoW MySpace A “people driven plan” Plan calls for $14 billion in spending on New…

Tom Ashbrook of Boston’s NPR recently did a show on New Orleans recovery. New Orleans Report Card On Point Speaking of NPR, here’s Andrei Codrescu on Louisiana’s smoking ban. No Smoking in Paris, Dublin – and New Orleans? Poet On Call Rounding out the NPR trifecta, here we are on All Things Considered after (George)…

Empire? Venice? Port Sulphur? List of settlements lost to floods in the Netherlands Wikipedia Sinn Fein in St. Bernard New use urged for home slabs Nola.com MySpace page of New Orleans’ latest murder victim, 11 so far this year. R.I.P. 2 M3 WORDMAN BUT MY FAM GON3 HOLD M3 DOWN~9 MySpace

Whoa! Hey! Saints up four spots in the ESPN power rankings! Power Rankings: Chargers firmly on top Espn.com Hola ninos and ninas! Hispanic Baby Boom Follows New Orleans Hurricane HispanicBusiness.com “The flood water reached the eaves of houses in some places and over some one story roofs in the Lower Ninth Ward. Some residents drowned…

Hurricane season ends tonight. Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Florence, Gordon, Helene and Isaac, we hardly knew ya. Tell your buddies next year how much fun you had in the North Atlantic. Thanks for the quiet season. Hurricane season ends quietly Nola.com While everyone was predicting the watery end to coastal civilization as we know…

NPR shows journalism is alive and well and free of sensation with their Katrina coverage. Check the “One Year Later” podcasts, there are a few hours of interviews… NPR: Katrina and Recovery NPR “Some people got lost in the flood/Some people got away alright” Internet Archive: Details: Mississippi River Flood of 1927 Internet Archive Everything…

Here is Clarence’s budget presentation for our city in 24-page PDFy goodness. Mayors Budget Overview Presentation City of NO I don’t see any quote from the NOPD or even a “no comment” so take this story for what it is. New Orleans Police Dept. Arrests Washington D.C. based Attorney for Observing an Arrest Infoshop News…

What a little inspiration can do… Welcome to Deltawerken.com Deltawerken Online “20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine” New Orleans man pleads guilty to Katrina fraud in Miss. Sun Herald.com It’s old, but still fucked up. Mr. Shafer, I wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire. The case against rebuilding the sunken…

– Since Antoinette Frank is in the news again … Saturday, March 4, 1995. 1:55 A.M. New Orleans Court TV – Now our Grisly murder is World news. Suicide link to Headless Corpse Times Online, UK – “Due to complacency, fatigue, and/or the effects of alcohol, Auletta failed to detect the approaching ship.” MV George…