Founder Rosenthal invited to comment on Audubon Institute’s deal with Tulane U over public space

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023

UPDATED: One week after this post, Audubon Nature Institutes (ANI) announced there would be no deal with Tulane University over the use of public space at ANI’s tennis courts.

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On Memorial Day Weekend two years ago, founder Sandy Rosenthal dusted off her community rallying skills to pursue an issue of public space.

Rosenthal created a petition decrying a deal between Audubon Nature Institutes (ANI) and Tulane University to build a new tennis complex at the site of ANI’s ten public clay courts in Uptown New Orleans.

From Rosenthal’s viewpoint, this appeared a plan to wrest usage of public space away from the public and give it to a private institution. The plan would reduce the number of clay courts available to the public at large from ten to six.

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Founder Rosenthal featured on the Nan McKay show

Monday, March 6th, 2023

Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal was recently featured on Nan McKay’s new podcast called Trailblazers Impact.

Rosenthal discusses how she and her group Levees.org took on the organization responsible for the engineering design flaws in New Orleans’ levees –– the US Army Corps of Engineers.

In addition she provided these takeaways:

  • How to take it upon yourself to fix a problem in your community without fear
  • Don’t be afraid to take on the big guys when fighting for a good cause, even when they go after you

You can see the full interview here and information on how to download the podcast.

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“Katrina” Remains the Terrible Apex

Tuesday, January 17th, 2023

This month, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) adjusted Hurricane Katrina’s official cost of damage to $186.3 billion making it the costliest hurricane on record.

Also, the death count for the 2005 storm was adjusted from just over 1800 to just under 1400.

Despite the downward adjustment, Hurricane Katrina remains the deadliest storm in the past 50 years.

According to the data that the NHC relied on for its update, Katrina, “stands apart not just for the enormity of the losses, but for the ways in which most of the deaths occurred.”

Levee failure.

“…levee failures allowed water to fill parts of the New Orleans area to great depth, leading to the deaths of hundreds of people…”

This is why the exact truth and circumstances about the August 2005 event need to be put in front, and kept in front, of the American people.

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