Second Plaque Approved by Louisiana Historic Preservation Office
The Louisiana State Office of Historic Preservation has approved Levees.org’s request for a Historic Plaque. The request was submitted in January 2011. The proposed Plaque, the group’s second, will be positioned near ground zero of the London Avenue Canal Breach site in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. The proposed site, chosen with input from […]
Code for America enlists Stanford Rosenthal, founding web designer for Levees.org
Barely past 15 years of age, my son Stanford Rosenthal designed and created Levees.org’s website. Today he officially became a summer intern at Code for America which “enlists the talent of the web industry into public service to use their skills to solve core problems facing our communities.” Stanford is continuing his civic contribution! Sandy […]
Myth Buster #6 New Orleans is First in Nation to Place Experts on Local Levee Boards
One year after the levees broke, Louisiana made national headlines when 81% of its voting residents favored consolidating the New Orleans area levee boards from ten to two. It was called Levee Board Reform, and it made the Governor-appointed individuals on the pre-Katrina levee boards look – wrongly – like they were responsible for the […]
