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H.J. Bosworth Jr featured in WWL-TV story about Corps and I-walls

H.J. Bosworth Jr., lead researcher for Levees.org was featured yesterday on the 10 o’clock news in a story by Dennis Woltering which focused on the Army Corps of Engineers and its construction of more I-walls to protect the city. ā€œI’m very surprised that the Corps is specifying and designing the use of I-walls anywhere around […]

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Harry Shearer’s ‘The Big Uneasy’ will screen in Scotland and Ireland

Next week, Harry Shearer’s award-winning documentary The Big Uneasy will be screened at two international film festivals in Europe. Mr. Shearer will be present for both showings. The Big Uneasy is a hardhitting documentary about the human errors that led to the devastating flooding during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on August 29, 2005. In […]

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Gambit Weekly throws the Brick at the New York Times

Just under a year ago, I ran into Clancy Dubos (owner of Gambit Weekly) at the Green School Edible Garden in New Orleans. When we parted, Mr. Dubos assured me that he would issue a style alert to all Gambit Weekly reporters when referencing the August 2005 flooding. It was Mr. Dubos’s intention to request […]

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