Very good news: The Bush administration has decided to support making levees in New Orleans stronger than before Hurricane Katrina struck I still can’t overcome…
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Very good news: The Bush administration has decided to support making levees in New Orleans stronger than before Hurricane Katrina struck I still can’t overcome…
There are three elementary schools opening in the newly formed Algiers Charter School Association. Xy attended a mass meeting the other day and observed that…
If the United States can’t take care of its own, maybe they should sell us back to France.
The New York Times published this editorial today: We are about to lose New Orleans. Whether it is a conscious plan to let the city…
The electricians started work on our house today. Also, the plumber got the city inspector to come by and certify us for getting our gas…
Best news of the day: New Orleans is going to provide free citywide wireless internet service, first in the nation.
Been too busy and too preoccupied to post, so here’s a random grab-bag update. My apologies if this seems somewhat haphazard or disjointed. We continue…
Lately I’ve been posting about my personal experiences post-Katrina. I haven’t written much about the “big picture.” But if you care about me and Xy…
Xy and I had a great breakfast at Slim Goodie’s. We were talking with an Irish grandma (with brogue!) and her daughter and baby granddaughter,…
We are home again. We got no electricity, half our house is in ruins, and we’re staying on a friend’s futon, but we’re home again.…
Just submitted this letter to the Herald-Times: My wife and I sought refuge in Bloomington some ten weeks ago when we evacuated New Orleans. The…
After we evacuated from New Orleans, I did a short interview on WFHB. When I made my first trip back to New Orleans, the city…
If I was in New Orleans today, I’d go to the Orleans Parish School Board meeting scheduled for this evening. One of the first items…
Here’s a couple post-Katrina bloggers who are quite a bit more eloquent than me: In Exile by Abram Himelstein Operation Eden by Clayton James Cubitt…
If you want to hear what people in New Orleans are concerned about, tune in to United Broadcasters of New Orleans via WWL, the Big…
Met a guy from Mid-City this morning while eating breakfast at Slim Goodies. He said he was working a job that sounds pretty gruesome: pulling…
I’ve been working on our house every day since I got here. It’s lonely work, and it can be a little wearing. So today I…
As I write this I’m sitting in the Prytania movie theater in Uptown New Orleans for what is surely the most awesome premiere I’ve ever…
I went back to my neighborhood today. The flood-damaged crap which Michael and I had hauled out from my house to the curb was still…
Best news of the day: Clean water in my ‘hood! Mayor Ray Nagin announced Thursday that safe drinking water has been restored to New Orleans’…