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• TPC EXCLUSIVE- State Rep. Abramson talks Jindal priorities: Superdome suite v. mental health services

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 677
  By GottaLaff State Representative Neil Abramson (D) New Orleans Cutting services to those who desperately need them is becoming a habit over in JindalLand. He is now gutting all mental health care in Louisiana to fill the Medicare budget shortfall : The state also plans to shift money from its mental ...
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• Leiberman Katrina and Fort Hood

  
  G2 Visual Design Salad and Other Healthy Appetizers — Authority: 131
  Leiberman is doing his best to stir up anti Arab sentiment in the wake of the tragic Fort Hood Shooting. The incident where the shooter happened to be a Muslim and much to the deep joy of the Right Wing Nut Jobs and I suspect, Senator Leiberman, he had a really Arab sounding name.The Senate [...]
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• I’d uh, get out of Louisiana if I were you. Hurricane Ida’s coming.

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 580
  The hurricane-ravaged state, still smarting from Hurricane Katrina four years later, called a state of emergency already. Hopefully the Category 2 doesn’t get stronger. SOURCE
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• Why People Think The World is Coming to an End

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 596
  Many people believe the world is coming to an end in 2012 is because that is when the Mayan calender stops. On December 21, 2012 to be exact. But they had different calenders than we do. It is possible, but not likely. Seriously, every calender has to end sometime, doesn’t it? Most 2008/2009 calenders might stop on ...
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• Katrina game creator accused of using stolen money orders

  
  The CityBusiness Blog — Authority: 424
  By Deon Roberts, Online Editor Here’s a news item I couldn’t help but blog about. A man who made a board game ridiculing the government for its response to Hurricane Katrina has been charged with using money orders stolen in New Orleans the year the storm hit, according to news reports . Here’s an excerpt: ...
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• Unadulterated Eggers

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 593
  My first impression of Dave Eggers during our recent interview was how much he cared about the Abdulraham and Kathy Zeitoun and their children, the New Orleans family and subject of Egger’s book, Zeitoun . He had spent a lot of time talking on the phone with Zeitouns, and made numerous trips to New Orleans to ...
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• Apartment 1503 is haunted by Ghosts

  
  POTPOLITICS — Authority: 464
  I have never really believed in Ghosts because basically the whole premise just doesn’t make much sense. I always wanted to come back as a Ghost, a good ghost of course. I  have enjoyed many a great Ghost story as a kid.I will tell the story from this morning backwards. I live in a small [...]
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• Galveston Shriners Hospital now open

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 146
  The Galveston Shriners Hospital, which was closed down after Hurricane Ike and was set to reopen on Monday after a long battle to bring it back, has opened its doors a few days early . Kudos to all involved for getting this done.
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• Sustainable FLOAT House in New Orleans by Morphosis

  
  Home and House Design — Authority: 131
  Morphosis has completed the first floating house permitted in the United States for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation in New Orleans designed and built by Morphosis and UCLA Architecture and Urban Design graduate students.The FLOAT House is a new model for flood-safe, affordable and sustainable housing that is ...
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• If the government won’t help New Orleans, Dave Eggers will.

  
  Matador Change — Authority: 126
  Feature photo: 826 Chicago; Photo above by author Dave Eggers’ book, Zeitoun , is to be adapted into a movie. If the book itself wasn’t enough to help NOLA, how about this news? Late this afternoon, Media Bistro reported that Dave Eggers’ most recent book, Zeitoun, has been optioned by Jonathan Demme ...
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• I had never even heard of MREs(Meals, ready to eat) before...

  
  Bill is my name — Authority: 113
  I had never even heard of MREs(Meals, ready to eat) before working in a food pantry, but apparently these things were given out like crazy after hurricane katrina. They are these air tight meals that are usually issued to people in the military because they basically don’t have an expiration date. They also come ...
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• Anita Lee covers Bossier v State Farm trial for the Sun Herald

  
  slabbed — Authority: 479
  Pupua admitted under questioning from Bossier’s attorney, Judy Guice, that he was unable to produce any of the reports he used because State Farm later conducted a “Hurricane sweep,” as Guice called it. The company ordered adjusters to return all Katrina documents, including e-mails and adjusting ...
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• A response to Alf Apps’ politicization of H1N1

  
  Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics — Authority: 562
  Alf Apps made the news for emailing this disgraceful letter to a wide distribution list within the Liberal Party. He has been roundly criticized for suggesting that H1N1 may be Prime Minister Harper’s “Hurricane Katrina” and that “Canadians are entitled to wonder if they are being victimized by some ...
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• NFL Fanhouse: Americas Team? Its the Saints Now [Terence Moore]

  
  American Legends — Authority: 124
  From Terence Moore of NFL Fanhouse : Go ahead, because this is the right thing to do: You should spend the rest of the NFL season hugging whatever team you traditionally love, but you should kiss the New Orleans Saints in the shadows. If you prefer to do so in the sunshine, thats fine, too. The ...
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• My Horrible New York Times Review

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 540
  NEAR 91 DEGREES LONGITUDE-Here’s the good news. My first novel was reviewed by the New York Times.Here’s the bad news. It was a horrible review. I do not hyperbolize. It was really bad. So that you understand how terrible it is, I’ve included it entirely as the next full paragraph. Please feel free to gasp, [...]
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• Charter Schools & Special Education: A New Article by Professor Weber Part I

  
  Special Education Law Blog — Authority: 417
  Have you ever wondered about how the special education laws apply to students in a charter school? We tend to think of charter schools as things existing outside of the educational system. Some tell me that they are a curse; others say that they are a panacea. I suspect that the jury is still out. Image via ...
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• The Ugly American

  
  Revolution 21's Blog for the People — Authority: 428
  Like a stopped clock, the Ugly American is correct twice a day. Or, in former New Orleans "recovery czar" Ed Blakelys case, twice in a couple of years and change. The story of Mr. Disaster Recovery in the Big Easy -- cette Americain Vilain -- is a typical story of les Americains descending upon a foreign ...
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• wise as an owl, smart as a fox – Sarah Vance, Federal District Judge Eastern District Louisiana

  
  slabbed — Authority: 479
  The most difficult decisions that a Court can make require it to balance the need for finality and procedural regularity against the possibility, however faint, of injustice.  Any effort to draw a proper line between the two will never be perfect, nor will it be satisfactory to all involved. Nevertheless, the ...
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• …and the Saints go marching in Katrina litigation

  
  slabbed — Authority: 479
  Oh, the Lord works in mysterious ways .  For example, tomorrow the trial in Bossier v State Farm begins on – trumpets, please – on All Souls Day.  Today, however, we celebrate All Saints! One could say the slabbed have some saints-in-the- making -  it really is a miracle a case ever gets to trial! For ...
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• …and the Saints go marching in Katrina litigation

  
  slabbed — Authority: 479
  Oh, the Lord works in mysterious ways .  For example, tomorrow the trial in Bossier v State Farm begins on – trumpets, please – on All Souls Day.  Today, however, we celebrate All Saints! One could say the slabbed have some saints-in-the- making -  it really is a miracle a case ever gets to trial! For ...
  1 week ago

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