Posted in New Orleans, Media, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, NOLA Rising on Sep 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Phoning this one in . . . from outside the Superdome on the afternoon of the Saints’ homecoming.
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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 […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Crime & Terror, Politics on Sep 13th, 2006 No Comments »
As the body count piles up, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office seems intent on punishing defendants by inaction, rather than by proving its cases in court. Horror stories about untried defendants languishing in jail, and being released after serving more time behind bars than a conviction would have earned are becoming commonplace under […]
Posted in New Orleans on Sep 13th, 2006 No Comments »
The more things change . . . they don’t change that much . . .
“Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists. Its condition is so bad […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Religion & Faith, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati on Sep 11th, 2006 Comments Off
As the golden hour gives way to dusk this evening, I visit with the only casualty of Sept. 11, 2001 that I know. I kneel at his feet and say a prayer over his grave. Hozho na'as glih. Hozho na'as glih. In beauty, it is done.
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Spc. Robert L. duSang was killed in Iraq a little over two […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati on Sep 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Just for a pleasant break from my post-Katrina sob story, thought I'd share this slideshow from the annual powwow of the Houma Nation outside, well, Houma.
The music is the Tsalagi Morning Song, which is out of place, of course, but this was an intertribal affair. And the women sang it over my Choctaw father as […]
Posted in Uncategorized, General, New Orleans, dawnsinger, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 29th, 2006 No Comments »
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, […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, dawnsinger, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 26th, 2006 No Comments »
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, […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 25th, 2006 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, dawnsinger, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 25th, 2006 No Comments »
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 […]