For a time in post-Katrina New Orleans there was a lull in the killing. The few residents able to return lived in a small strip of the city they called the “Sliver by the River,” an area that was flooded only lightly, and was the first to have electricity turned on. But 2006 saw New [...]
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Do independents have commitment issues?
The recent nationwide Tea Party protests criticizing ballooning government spending and taxation attracted a spectrum of conservative and middle-of-the-road participants. This ad hoc coalition was not without some friction. There was some recrimination from members of the far right about independent voters. One protester in Louisiana cast the election in religious terms, and chided independent [...]
Frantic flight from the Hurricane Bunker
Originally blogged in the Bourbon Street Journal and NOLA View weblogs on Aug. 30 in Baton Rouge after a frantic escape through the rising waters from levee breaches the day after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. My last post, in the now co-opted NOLA View weblog, was interrupted at breakfast-time Tuesday morning, Aug. 30, [...]
Finding peace in the eye of another hurricane
By Jon Donley / NOLA.com Read original post in the Bourbon Street Journal KATRINA DAY, Aug. 29, 2007 – It hardly seems that two years have gone by since Katrina crushed us. The city is still numb and battered. Our new pioneers work feverishly and defiantly to keep from sliding into a dark whirlpool of [...]
State of the union in post-Katrina New Orleans
This op-ed essay was written at the request of Open Source Radio host Christopher Lydon, and published on that site to coincide with the president’s State of the Union speech. ———————————- The state of our union By Jon Donley, January 2006 Perhaps no American city has faced such an uncertain future as metro New Orleans [...]
Jon Donley provides commercial writing and editorial services
After 30 years as a professional journalist – including nearly two decades in new media – award-winning editor Jon Donley has launched Dawnsinger LLC, a company providing commercial writing, editing and new media consulting. Jon’s most recent post was a 12-year stint as the founding editor of NOLA.com, the leading New Orleans news and entertainment [...]