People listen when one of the President’s men speaks. So it got noticed last week when Donald Powell, recovery czar for the Gulf Coast said “…the federal government is responsible for this hurricane damage (to New Orleans) because of the failure of the levee system…” Powell said this before the Senate Disaster Recovery Subcommittee. It [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Awful, like the failure of the federal levees in New Orleans
Saturday, May 19, 2007 – 12:16 pm
Always an optimist and never missing a reason to celebrate, I was delighted to find a good “sign” in the Times Picayune’s letters-to-the-editor (LTEs). Two days in a row, on unrelated subjects, writers punctuated their points by drawing parallels to the “failure of the federal levees.” One of the LTEs was about the theft of [...]
PoP: YouTube and Hurricane Katrina
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 – 12:11 am
Hello, my name is Babatunde A……. and I am currently a junior at UCLA’s film school studying documentary filmmaking. I recently took a trip this past February to visit my best friend who attends HBCU Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. While I was there, my friend and his Uncle–a native of New Orleans–took [...]
NEWS: The Delta Initiative: What is it?
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 – 12:01 am
The Delta Initiative is a multi-year research and planning effort the University of California – Berkeley, dealing with the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region of California. The fate of the Delta is crucial to California’s future — it is the hub of the state’s water supply system… The Delta is also home to more than half [...]
NEWS: Jazzed for New Orleans Jazz Fest – Celebrate…
Monday, May 7, 2007 – 11:53 pm
“You can destroy our city, and that unique culture fees us all the more,” says Jazz Fest Producer, Quint Davis. “That’s why Jazz Fest plays such a role in energizing people. It’s a catalyst for rejuvenation. People feel a hunger to connect with these great performers.” “… music is not an accoutrement here,” Davis says. [...]