From the comments on a NOLA post this weekend:
In the mean time, half the state is losing their insurance. Mine got canceled this week…because I’d held it for under three years.
I could feel wisps of steam starting to waft from my ears when I read that. That’s a reason to cancel someone’s policy???? Is that […]
The Washington Post reports that C. Ray has run on at the mouth again:
New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has suggested that the slow recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina — which has prevented many black former residents from returning — is part of a plan to change the racial makeup and […]
I’m speechless:
NEW ORLEANS - The Army Corps of Engineers, rushing to meet President Bush’s promise to protect New Orleans by the start of the 2006 hurricane season, installed defective flood-control pumps last year despite warnings from its own expert that the equipment would fail during a storm, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The […]
New Orleans’ Times-Picayune concluded its 3-part Special Report, Last Chance, on the disappearing Louisiana Coast today — a bleak, in-depth look at the hows and whys of the lost wetlands, and what has to happen if there’s any hope of saving this part of the state.
The series included graphics, pdfs, reports, and multimedia, including an […]
The worst-case scenario for New Orleans was never that it wouldn’t be “chocolate” enough, or that it would be too rich because all the poor would be forced out.
It was that people would just give up.