Tag Archives: new orleans
Ivor van Heerden releases affidavit detailing retaliatory activity by LSU officials
Ivor van Heerden, former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center asked Friday that U.S. District Judge James J. Brady of Baton Rouge order his immediate reinstatement at LSU. Van Heerden’s contract with LSU will expire May 21. In February, van Heerden sued LSU and four administrators alleging that his LSU career is ending […]
More details emerge on why Levees.org will love HBO’s TREME
We encourage all Levees.org supporters to watch the debut episode of HBO’s new series TREME starring John Goodman. (Readers may recall that John Goodman is a spokesperson for Levees.org and appeared in a 2007 public service announcement.) The Series Premiere of TREME is Sunday April 11, 2010 at 9pm CST on HBO. Rumor has it […]
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 […]
