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, with [...]
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 melancholy.
The network [...]
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.
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The state of our union
By Jon Donley, January 2006
Perhaps no American city has faced such an uncertain future as metro New Orleans faces at the beginning [...]