Today is National Dam Safety Awareness Day. Sadly, there is no National Levee Safety Awareness Day. Dammit.
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Today is National Dam Safety Awareness Day. Sadly, there is no National Levee Safety Awareness Day. Dammit.
I’m going to try to articulate a few ideas knocking around in my head about the recovery of Mid-City.
Remember, the City Council’s planning process is now underway, and the common wisdom seems to be that if we don’t participate, we’ll be flattened.
Also, please realize that I don’t consider myself any kind of expert in urban planning or the like. I’m quite naïve in these matters. I’m just a concerned resident of Mid-City worried that if we don’t articulate a vision and a plan, someone else will, and it may not represent out best interests.
Another .rox blogger: Welcome aboard to Lee, the DVD Guy who will be blogging at magic.rox.
Well, this sucks. Scientists report that parts of New Orleans are sinking “four or five times faster than the rest of the city,” at a…
Here’s a short (two minute) video for the nine month mark. I uploaded it to both Vimeo and YouTube, so take your pick. The YouTube…
If Alberto avoids us If Beryl doesn’t break us If Chris doesn’t crush us If Debby doesn’t drown us If Ernesto doesn’t exile us If…
When we bought our house we were told it was 80-100 years old. One of the papers says it was built in 1922, but I’m…
Check out this presentation on the rebuilding of Xavier University (PDF, about three and half MB). Astonishing pictures of the flooded campus.
Somehow over the course of the last month or so, my frame of mind has slipped from tightly-bridled optimism to vague worry, mild stress and…
Mark the Carpenter is back at work on our house today, after a hiatus of almost two months. Sadly, his helper Tony is not returning…
Best news I heard yesterday: People are finally starting to move into the trailer site a block from our house. The trailers have been sitting…
The Second Annual Lafitte Corridor Rail Hike was a screaming success! On Sunday, May 21st, eighteen of us hiked about three miles from Armstrong Park…
I’m disappointed by the spin of this article in City Business —laf the headline in particular. “Film studio under fire”? C’mon. No one is criticizing…
My take on Mayor Nagin’s re-election? I can’t say it half as well as da po’ boy already did.
So I went to the neighborhood planning meeting for Mid-City and Gert Town Saturday morning, and was deeply disturbed by what I saw there. Something…
I got my sample ballot. Here’s how I plan to vote in the runoff Saturday: Clerk, Criminal District Court Nick Varrecchio, Democrat, Ballot # 21…
I just saw something I’ve never seen in my seven years here at the University: students throwing a football around in the quad. It did…
My friend Michael is fighting back. Anyone else out there in America who pays money to Big Insurance Companies — I hope you’re paying attention…
The most radical proposal I heard at last weekend’s AIA conference: Tear down the stretch of I-10 that passes through the center of New Orleans…
As it develops, not only am I on the search committee to find my new boss — I’m the damn chair.