Back to New Orleans The News-Review
On my first visit ever to New Orleans a couple months after Hurricane Katrina, I came home haunted by a desecrated ghost town.
Hurricane victims to benefit from demolition of dilapidated church Daily American
The demolition of a dilapidated church, in West Frankfort, will serve three important purposes — making the community safer, offer space for economic development, and provide materials for donation to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Rains cause street flooding in, around New Orleans USA Today
Heavy rain swamped New Orleans Thursday, backing up traffic as pumping stations struggled to keep up. The same storm that dumped snow across the West brought about 6.6 inches of rain to the area through midday Thursday. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for parts of Louisiana.
Poker, Pamela, Paris and Perez: Web’s most wanted in 2006 Tacoma Daily Index
This is the time of year when people ponder the past as they anticipate looking ahead. I couldn’t resist trying to make sense of the year -- and a bit of the human condition -- so I turned to the various Internet search providers to see how they parsed out all of our incessant seeking.
Blunt officer receives attention New Orleans Times-Picayune
Who better to motivate the players in the R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl than the man Mayor Ray Nagin reportedly called a "John Wayne dude" who "can get some stuff done?"
Michelle Pilecki: Why You Might Want to Microwave Your Passport -- and Other Underreported Stories HuffingtonPost
Thanks to Foreign Policy for the international flavor of the Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006 , including the tidbit about the biometric passport with the easy-to-hack "security" chip that leaves the owners vulnerable to identity theft. So far, the only "solution" is to destroy the chip by zapping it. That's just one of the gems. Also check out * Why you should worry about
Bob Cesca: Al Gore: The Voice Of Reality, 2006 HuffingtonPost
For the last three years, at around this time of year, I've made an effort to recognize and blog about a public figure who, despite the odds, managed to break through the craptastical quantities of horseshit we hear every day to speak strongly, fearlessly and precisely about the realities of our national situation. The qualifications to become a Voice of Reality are simple. 1) A Voice of Reality
Escondido council denies winter shelter request North County Times
ESCONDIDO -- The city of Escondido has done enough to help the homeless, the majority of the City Council said Wednesday evening.
Top Google News search term in 2006: Paris Hilton dotjournalism
In the year of the World Cup and the rebuild after hurricane Katrina it was ever-present banal celebrities, not hampered by the limited time constraints of a natural disaster or the knockout tournament, that proved stultifying popular as Orlando Bloom appeared as the second most searched term.
Photographer Tells Visual Story of Hurricane Rita PR Web via Yahoo! News
Baton Rouge, LA (PRWeb) December 20, 2006 -- Matthew White, a New York native who has lived in and documented the unique beauty of Louisiana since 2000, and is a contributor to "Beyond Katrina:
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