The indomitable Karen Gadbois has today made the front page of the WSJ. I’ve known for a long time that Squandered Heritage was something very special but always suspected it would simply be our little secret. I’m happy to be wrong. Thank you Karen for your and SQ’s other bloggers’ efforts in calling attention to…
Month: August 2007
To Mr. Busowski, I Salute You
Peter Busowski, I salute you sir. From the Letters pages of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Letter of the day: New Orleans knows worth of Bush promises When I heard President Bush promise to rebuild the Interstate 35W bridge, all I could think was, “Haven’t the people of the Twin Cities suffered enough?” As a resident of…
Playing Politics With Our Lives
Last week, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had the following to say in regards to New Orleans recovery: Romney said he thought that the recovery effort next door in Mississippi was “going well and being effectively managed,” citing Republican Governor Haley Barbour as possibly the reason. But he said he wasn’t sure who to blame…
ABC On What We’ve All Been Thinking…
Will Bush Keep Pledge to Rebuild Bridge? I too couldn’t help but feel some skeptic deja vu when I heard Bush telling the people of Minneapolis that everything was going to be okay. I know he was keeping up appearances. Like he did on Sept. 20, 2001, like he did on Sept. 16, 2005. But…
Only in New Orleans
I was at N. Rampart and St. Bernard intersection yesterday and was trying to snap a photo of a billboard by this local attorney that strangely features a photo of him looking rather disheveled. This post was originally going to have that photo and some text inquiring as to why a legal professional would put…
How Many Levees Can You Build With One Iraq War?
It seems appropriate that I reposted Bush’s Jackson Square speech yesterday, because later in the day, I read a story that said he plans to veto a largely bipartisan bill (381-40) passed in Congress to help provide better levee protection for Jean Lafitte, Jefferson, Orleans, Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes. Just yesterday, one of Bush’s party…