Mayor-elect appoints two Levees.org staffers to Transition Team
New Orleans mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu has appointed two Levees.org staffers to his Transition Team. H.J. Bosworth Jr. PE, research director for Levees.org, and Sandy Rosenthal, founder and executive director of Levees.org will serve on the Flood Protection Subcommittee of the broader Flood Protection and Coastal Restoration Task Force. The Flood Protection Subcommittee will be chaired [...]
Miami Herald’s Leonard Pitts Jr. earns LeveesOrg seal of approval
It’s a very good sign that the mission of Levees.org is being fulfilled when reporters far far from New Orleans resist harmful inaccurate Katrina ‘shorthand.’ Leonard Pitts Jr. of the Miami Herald didn’t even use the word Katrina in his piece about Warren Buffet and New Orleans. Excellent. Inaccurate Katrina ‘shorthand’ is harmful to metro [...]
LeveesOrg founder Sandy Rosenthal to be panelist at Loyola Law Conference
On Friday March 5, Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org will be a guest panelist at the National Association of Environmental Law Societies Annual Conference. Other panelists include Oliver Houck, professor of law at Tulane and Craig Colten, professor of Anthropology at LSU. The panel discussion will focus on the settlement, rebuilding and future foot print [...]
