Mitch Landrieu in Memory of Katrina - Thank You President Bush?
Remembrance teach-ins have sprung up the past few weeks recalling the devastation visited upon New Orleans as a result of the failure of the levy in New Orleans during the hurricane known as...
View ArticleKatrina: A 10-Year Review
by Walter BraschThis week is the 10th anniversary of the destruction of the southeastern gulf coast by Hurricane Katrina.More than 1,800 people died. There is no estimate for the number of pets and...
View Article"Mommy, Why Do Mexicans Live on the Roof?"
That was a question asked of an acquaintance of mine by her daughter, a reasonable query for a toddler in the months after the flood of 2005. The child's innocence blunted the bigotry inherent in the...
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Ten years later, Hurricane Katrina still shapes New Orleans, and our memories
Ten years ago, the United States suffered one of its worst natural disasters ever when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. A mandatory evacuation order came late, with the highways...
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New report examines Kochs' role in Hurricane Katrina damage and slow recovery
The Democratic opposition research group American Bridge Project issued a new report Thursday on the Koch brothers and Hurricane Katrina. It examines how the company "both contributed to the damages...
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How Jeb! helped his corporate buddies profit off Katrina
I'm my own man. Jeb!'s campaign has been releasing some feel-good ads about his handling of Hurricane Katrina (a not-so-subtle way of saying, I'm not my brother). But AJ Vicens takes a look at Jeb!'s...
View ArticleMaybe President Obama Should Just Skip His Alaska Trip Next Week
The White House just put out a video about why President Obama is going to Alaska next week. I tried to watch it. I made it exactly 3 seconds into it before I had to turn it off.
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10th Anniversary of Katrina: Hurricane Katrina Hit Mississippi
8:41 p.m. September 10, 2005. I stood in the street with my neighbors as out-of-state electricians repaired the transformer. We had been without power since 5:13 a.m., August 29, 2005, the morning...
View ArticleWorst. Email. Ever. 10th Anniversary
Today is the 10th anniversary of the worst email in American history. It was sent from Margaret Grant to Paine Gowen. Grant was the Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs,...
View ArticleYour Online Goodbye New Orleans Letter Generator
Since the Great Federal Flood of 2005, our fair burg has seen a great number of new arrivals, people of all stripes who've come to help rebuild our city and their own dreams. Of late, many of those new...
View ArticleThe paradox of the Louisiana Governors race.
There is an excellent post by Taniel highlighting and breaking down the early voting statistics for the Governors race in Louisiana, it can be found...
View Article"The only thing scary about this ..."
I used to write a lot of diaries about New Orleans.I was part of the Daily Kos Kohort who came to this website shortly after the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, known more accurately as The Federal Flood...
View Article2/8/16 Today's TILT (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
February is Black History MonthToday isNational Boy Scouts DayNational Kite Flying DayNational Clean Out Your Computer Day1) A record 149 prisoners were exonerated this past year. The average time of...
View ArticleThe Zombie Apocalypse is Not Your Friend
A friend recently pointed me to a blog post by Felix Salmon, The Zombie Apocalypse has Arrived, itself mostly a summation of a longer piece by John Powers, The Political Economy of Zombies. Both are...
View ArticleFormer New Orleans cops plead guilty to bridge shootings
Five former New Orleans police officers pleaded guilty today in shootings that occurred on the Danziger Bridge after Hurricane Katrina hit that town back in September 2005. The officers—Kenneth Bowen,...
View ArticlePreview: "Blame It on the Storm"
New single’s out (kind of; it’s live at CDBaby, but iTumes will take another day or two) and, as always, there’s a video to go with it. It’s currently set to “unlisted,” so anyone with the link can see...
View ArticleAbout that Republican Promise to "Make America Safe Again"
And that's just a sampling from the last time we had a Republican in the White House.
View ArticlePresident Obama, Greatest President
Like a lot of liberals, I used to believe that President Obama was a slightly better-than-average president who would have done a lot better if he’d followed President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s playbook...
View ArticleDid cops in Louisiana hide evidence and then blame Hurricane Katrina for its...
The Daily Beast has a lengthy piece on an incarcerated man who may be innocent. The man, Arizona Batiste, has been locked up for 21 years for the murder of Leonardo Alexander. Batiste says he shot...
View ArticleBush's Katrina
This is just republishing a 2005 DaiklyKos diary that should not be forgotten Hurricane Katrina-Our ExperiencesLarry Bradshaw, Lorrie Beth SlonskyTwo days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans,...
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