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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 melancholy. […]
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Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, Weather, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Writing & Journalism Resources on Mar 15th, 2007 No Comments »
This video is compiled from audioblogs and video coming into and leaving from New Orleans on Aug. 28-30, 2005, and photos from me, my colleagues and citizen journalists before, during and after the disaster. The music is the Tragically Hip’s “New Orleans is Sinking,” which was my mental background music that day, and “Orphans of […]
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Theresa Andersson talks about her return to New Orleans and her devotion to finding deeper roots.
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Posted in General, New Orleans, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Crime & Terror, Politics on Sep 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Mayor Clarence “Ray Nagin” took to the stand this week to defend his administration against accusations from all quarters that he has no plan for New Orleans. The bottom line from all quarters is that Ray is still a deer in headlights. Planning to appoint a committee to develop a plan. And […]
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The frantic rush of work leading up to today's Katrina anniversary came to a screeching halt last night, as I received my call to jury duty. A day that was scheduled for memorials and interviews ends in the hushed murmur of a St. Tammany courtroom annex for Juror 76.
A year ago at this moment, […]
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So here it is, Rising Tide Conference day, and ironically (or not, since we're in the peak of hurricane season), Tropical Storm Ernesto has locals flocking to Home Depot and Lowe's, or packing for the first potential evacuation of the year.
The latest five-day forecast map shows Ernesto entering the Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane, […]
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As Hurricane Katrina lumbered toward Greater New Orleans on Sunday, August 28, 2005, Julie Couret and her family were suffering the passing of her grandfather, who died in the wee hours. Sitting beside the bed of the dying family patriarch had cost the family the chance to flee the storm. So as the winds rose […]
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To be honest, as the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina churns toward us, I'm getting a bit overwhelmed. As a journalist, the pressure is on to provide THE DEFINITIVE Katrina retrospective. And yet there is not really anything "retro" about our perspective; Katrina is still very much a real ordeal, without a real plan or solution […]
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There is a specter hanging over Web 2.0 - the presence, or the decay, of net neutrality. Proponents of laws guaranteeing net neutrality fear that the current free-speech, affordable access to the entire internet will be lost as the big communications companies that own the bandwidth pipelines begin to filter out business rivals' sites, crack […]
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Within days after Katrina, the story began to unfold about the ongoing horror under way inside some of New Orleans' hospitals. Email from the sister of a doctor trapped in one of the hospitals told of the frantic race to get critically ill patients above the flood waters . . . fear of drug-starved looters […]
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