Archive for the 'Louisiana' Category
Monday, September 1st, 2008
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Water crests over the Inner Harbor Navigational Canal as wind and rain from Hurricane Gustav pound New Orleans. (AP)
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Image: (Polar bear) Photograped by Mila Zinkova via commons.wikimedia.org
Posted in Louisiana, Nature, Global Warming, Weather |
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Surely, you recall these two sports who dragged their wives before Klieg lights to show what happy families they had.
They have raised hypocrisy to the level of capital crime.
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This New Orleans madam, Jeanette Maier. alleged that Dave was a client.
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Images: (men’s room) AP Photo via a.abcnews.com; (Craig) rodonline-typepad.com via satiricalpolitical.com; (Vitter) foxnews.com; (Woman) […]
Posted in Constitution, Louisiana, Idaho, Larry Craig, David Vitter |
Friday, February 15th, 2008
FEMA trailers toxic, tests show
Facing Relocation
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Alex Brandon / Associated Press
Jim “Hawk” Herring, with his dog Koko, lives in a FEMA trailer in the Lakeview area of New Orleans. With recent government tests confirming high levels of formaldehyde in the temporary residences, U.S. health officials are urging that hurricane victims be relocated as soon as possible.
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Unhealthy […]
Posted in administration, Katrina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Nature, Health, FEMA, African-Americans, The Poor, Native Americans |
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Louisiana takes that statement to its logical conclusion, but it’s not the only state.
This story is followed by my post of October 2, 2006
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
January 29, 2008
Sidebar
Looking Anew at Campaign Cash and Elected Judges
By ADAM LIPTAK
Vernon Valentine Palmer, a law professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, could not understand how justices of […]
Posted in Louisiana, Ohio, Courts |
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Storm readiness shortfalls kept secret
Officials say disclosure would be security risk
Saturday, October 27, 2007
By Bill Walsh
New Orleans Times-Picayune
WASHINGTON — The state of Louisiana and the Bush administration are refusing to disclose analyses that would let the public know where gaps exist in the government’s hurricane preparation and response plans, including evacuation, medical services and shelters.
Citing […]
Posted in Bush, Katrina, Louisiana, Homeland Security, FEMA |
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Post-Katrina New Orleans death rate shoots up
By Ed StoddardThu Jun 21, 5:37 PM ET
Death rates in New Orleans rose nearly 50 percent as the city began its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, in part because of storm-related damage to its public health facilities, researchers said on Thursday.
“The city lost half of its public health workers after […]
Posted in Katrina, Louisiana, Health |
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
after the high-class ad in Tennessee’s 2006 senate race.
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Racial demons resurface with nooses on Louisiana tree
Thu May 24, 11:28 AM ET
The racial demons of the Old South have resurfaced in a rural Louisiana town where black students who tried to sit on the white side of the school yard were met by three hangmen’s […]
Posted in Louisiana, Tennessee, Racial Mattters |
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
W seems content to allow New Orleans to fall into a paroxysm of violence. As a pal in Chicago had predicted, we have our own Baghdad on the Mississippi.
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Wednesday, Apr. 04, 2007
A Citizens’ Army Grows in New Orleans
By Russell McCulley/New Orleans
Stephanie Pedro, 27, is no Paul Kersey, the New York architect-turned-vigilante Charles Bronson […]
Posted in administration, Bush, Katrina, Louisiana, Violence |
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
W. is no doubt working on Baghdad to show the post-surge progress through a series of Catholic grammar school filmstrips.
Google maps of New Orleans criticized by congressional subcommittee
AP
(3/31/07 - NEW ORLEANS, LA) - Google’s replacement of post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its map portal with images of the region before the storm does a […]
Posted in Katrina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Cong-HOUSE, Alabama, Technology, Cartography |
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
but the North Dakota governor has dibs on any warm, Mississippi names.
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Colorado to use inmates to fill migrant shortage
Tough laws passed last year against illegal immigration have created a need for farmworkers.
By Nicholas Riccardi
Times Staff Writer
March 1, 2007
DENVER — Ever since passing what its Legislature promoted as the nation’s toughest laws against illegal immigration last […]
Posted in Business, Louisiana, Colorado, Crime, Immigration |