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New study: Sound levees pay for themselves
Seeded on Mon Jan 4, 2010 7:24 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
The non partisan group Levees.org has just released new data that squarely addresses the question of whether metro New Orleans should be rebuilt. The new data is important because after the Army Corps of Engineers' levees failed during Katrina, the survivors were marginalize …
America the Traumatized: How 13 Events of the Decade Made Us the PTSD Nation
Seeded on Sun Jan 3, 2010 6:23 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
It's been one helluva decade, even though we've reached the end without knowing what to call it. Some have tried "the aughts," others the "double-Os." I'm content to simply call it over.
The New Katrina Flood: Hospital Liability
Seeded on Sun Jan 3, 2010 5:03 PM EST (The New York Times)
Three years before Hurricane Katrina inundated New Orleans, a senior executive at Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hospital assessed its vulnerability to the sort of flooding that had been long feared there.
Live from Argentina: Sarah Palin Is No Evita!
Seeded on Sun Jan 3, 2010 4:55 PM EST (Daily Kos)
"Do you have any Evita T-shirts?" I recently asked a docent at Buenos Aires' Evita museum. I wanted a T-shirt with a picture of Evita Peron on the front. Is that too much to ask for? Apparently so.
New Orleans' Mayoral Race: The Lack of a "Black" Candidate
Seeded on Sun Jan 3, 2010 4:32 PM EST (Daily Kos)
Now that State Senator Ed Murray has withdrawn from the mayor's race, an interesting shift has taken place. There is no "black" candidate running for mayor.
Avatar & American Indian Spirituality
Seeded on Sun Jan 3, 2010 4:07 PM EST (Daily Kos)
The recent movie Avatar has won critical acclaim for its use of 3D and its special effects. The underlying plot seems to be inspired by the American Indian experiences in the United States with the American government, corporations, and missionaries.
Governor of Katrina-ravaged Louisiana tries to block climate-change legislation
Seeded on Sun Jan 3, 2010 8:18 AM EST (Think Progress)
Even as the Senate argues whether to pass clean-energy legislation, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finally moving to regulate global warming pollution.
Katrina shaped 1st decade of 21st century in Louisiana
Seeded on Sun Jan 3, 2010 7:10 AM EST (The Town Talk)
BATON ROUGE -- Seldom does a single event shape a state's geographic, demographic, political, health, welfare, education and political direction. But that's exactly what Hurricane Katrina, followed soon afterward by Hurricane Rita, did to Louisiana.
Antarctica is melting
Seeded on Sat Jan 2, 2010 2:48 PM EST (Daily Kos)
Both poles are warming much faster than the average global warming so that while we sit here complaining about the cold where we live now what we ought to be doing is enjoying it while it lasts.
New Year's Day: Real Life at Eighty-Two
Seeded on Sat Jan 2, 2010 11:53 AM EST (Daily Kos)
My daughter saw the fire truck lights flashing and told my wife. My wife looked and then told me: "Something's wrong at Bobby's." I grabbed by light jacket and rushed out into the thirty degree weather, across the street toward our neighbor's house.
New Year's Day at Longwood Gardens (A Photo Journal)
Seeded on Sat Jan 2, 2010 11:41 AM EST (Daily Kos)
It's been a tough year. It's been a tough decade.
The Sad End of a Central Park Landmark
Seeded on Sat Jan 2, 2010 11:28 AM EST (Daily Kos)
At 4 0'clock in the morning on the first night of 2010, what was once America's highest-grossing restaurant shuttered its doors for the last time. Just three years ago, The Tavern on the Green was serving more than 700,000 meals a year and bringing in more than $38 million.
Slow pace of inquiry into 8 deaths leaves town distressed
Seeded on Sat Jan 2, 2010 10:23 AM EST (The New York Times)
JENNINGS, La. — Every few months for the last four and a half years, someone driving the back roads here in Jefferson Davis Parish has come across a body.
10 Years Gone; Reflecting on my mother's death
Seeded on Sat Jan 2, 2010 12:19 AM EST (Daily Kos)
I come from a very small family and my father died when I was five. Both my parents were only children and I am an only child as well. My mother and I were more like sisters/close companions in many ways and she raised me in a very liberal fashion.
Talkin' about a Re-s-olution
Seeded on Sat Jan 2, 2010 12:08 AM EST (Daily Kos)
Friends around the New Year's Eve dinner table shrugged when I asked about New Year's resolutions. They didn't care to ask me, either.
Parting thoughts to a decade that could have been
Seeded on Sat Jan 2, 2010 12:00 AM EST (Daily Kos)
Dissecting the last 10 years is like picking at an open wound. Once you start, you feel it almost necessary to do something to dress that wound, or perhaps it's simply time to provide for palliative care.
Where is my New Millennium?
Seeded on Fri Jan 1, 2010 11:42 PM EST (Daily Kos)
In 1996, Bill Clinton and Al Gore ran on the slogan of "Building the Bridge to the 21st Century". Fourteen years later we wonder if we will ever get off that bridge and get into the 21st century.
Massive veterinary drug recall getting bigger
Seeded on Fri Jan 1, 2010 11:32 PM EST (Daily Kos)
The story began last summer, when the FDA sued Teva Animal Health, the largest manufacturer of generic animal drugs in the United States, after agency inspections turned up adulterated animal drugs. On Dec.
Authorities arrest 7 in sex, drugs, money scam
Seeded on Fri Jan 1, 2010 3:12 PM EST (wafb.com)
ALBANY, LA (WAFB) - Law enforcement agents in Livingston Parish arrested four men and three women on charges related to sex, drugs and assault early Sunday morning. The arrests were all made at a home near Albany on Dec. 20.
After storms, a human toll
Seeded on Fri Jan 1, 2010 3:05 PM EST (Baton Rouge Advocate)
How many pre-teens of Katrina and Rita events are now young drug runners in the mean streets of New Orleans or elsewhere? How many might have been saved? Impossible to know now.
"Something fierce and imperishable..."
Seeded on Fri Jan 1, 2010 12:26 PM EST (Daily Kos)
Something went wrong just before my friend Will was born, in a small city in the midwest, in the mid 1960s. The most likely cause: a mild prenatal stroke.
circumpolar beings of light
Seeded on Fri Jan 1, 2010 10:02 AM EST (Daily Kos)
Circumpolar beings of light are fading. A recently released report tells of declining populations of polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea. It's official.
Teacher program taking off in Louisiana
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:58 PM EST (Baton Rouge Advocate )
Katie Norman, 22, was an advertising major at LSU when she heard about a program that trained top-flight students to teach in troubled public schools. Now Norman, from Abita Springs, is a teacher at Southeast Middle School, helping students catch up with their peers.
Remember Katrina
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:23 PM EST (Daily Kos)
Watching the aftermath of Katrina, the throngs huddled at the Superdome, the lack of water, of food, the racial makeup of those who had been left behind, was very traumatic for me -- I had never seen anything like it in America.
free clinic, free lunch, free love
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:34 PM EST (Daily Kos)
Republicans hate free clinics. They get angry when you discuss them. The idea of someone getting something of value and not paying for it clearly just makes them crazy. We may have something here.
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13 state AGs threaten suit over health care deal
Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska's political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday.
Fewer Katrina, Rita trailers but challenges left
Nearly 1,600 families in Louisiana and Mississippi remain in government-supplied trailers and mobile homes more than four years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Katrina: DA seeks 1 autopsy in hospital deaths
The New Orleans district attorney has requested an autopsy on a terminally ill patient whose doctor acknowledged increasing the drugs the patient received in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the city's coroner said Tuesday.
Katrina recovery was test of ability to adapt
Katrina. For most Americans, it needs no qualifiers.
La. Indian village holds out against plea to move
A day in the life of Edison Dardar starts with a caterwaul of a shout. A yawlp. His chest puffs up: "Yay-hoooo!" Morning cries down the road greet him. "Wa-hoooo!" .... "Yaaaah!" .... "Aaaahh-eee." The Indian fisherman smiles. His cousins and nephews are doing well.
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