Category Archives: katrina

What is New Orleans’ future? The Sunday NY Times has a story that captures that confusing place where debates often lead. Quote: “At one edge of this city’s future are the extravagant visions of its boosters…At the other extreme are … Continue reading →

New Orleans is open: On Flickr, I’ve posted some photos from the Louisiana Cookin‘ Magazine’s 2006 Chefs to Watch benefit dinner Monday night in New Orleans. As this will likely be my last New Orleans-visit post, I also want to … Continue reading →

Dirty Coast T-Shirts: In looking among the thousands of T-shirts for sale that could document our visit to New Orleans, the 15-year-old and I discovered that most seem to be created by the intoxicated to be purchased by the intoxicated. … Continue reading →

New Orleans truth: I hope to see Spike Lee’s documentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. I think anything that gets bloggers talking about Katrina again is a good thing. However, invoking the word truth when describing … Continue reading →

New Orleans Jazz Funeral: It will be later before I blog anything from New Orleans where my son and I are visiting for a couple of days. A few minutes ago, we chanced upon a jazz funeral procession that was … Continue reading →

Observation: The key to great politician speeches — no politics: I sat through lots of speeches today at the NFIB Small-Business Summit. (I’ve posted short items on several of them over at MyBusinessmag.com.) One speech I heard today is perhaps … Continue reading →

The T-P wins a Pulitzer: Jeff Jarvis has always been nice to credit me with my early and continuous urging of the powers-that-be to award a Pulitzer Prize to the Times Picayune’s online efforts after Katrina. Jeff’s bully pulpit is … Continue reading →

Small business Katrina help — from Yahoo!: This has much mojo. Yahoo! employees from around the country will be in New Orleans this Friday to help small businesses get online. Small businesses in the area will be eligible for up … Continue reading →

My thoughts after spending time volunteering on the Mississippi gulf coast: Last week, my 15-year-old son and I spent a couple days doing some volunteer construction work on the Mississippi Gulf coast in Pass Christian, near Gulfport. I posted a … Continue reading →

Mississippi Coast Back to Work: A directory of Mississippi coast businesses that are rebuilding and open for business and want to let everyone know about it. More than 500 businesses have added information. The chambers of commerce of three coastal … Continue reading →

Work of art: Blog friend Shawn Lea has created KatrinaArtists.com, for Gulf Coast artists in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina to post information about their work, to let customers know where they are now and to sell their work … Continue reading →

Pulitzer prize countdown: Jim Amoss of ‘Times-Picayune’ is Editor & Publisher’s ‘Editor of the Year’. (rexblog flashback) Technorati Tags: katrina

Shawn Lea can’t go home again: Shawn’s returning home for Thanksgiving, but the house she grew up in is no longer there. She reminds us what to remember when we sit down for Thanksgiving dinner in a couple of days.

The economics of rebuilding New Orleans: The Wall Street Journal Online (free feature) asked economist bloggers John Irons and Lynne Kiesling to pick through the good, the bad, and the ugly among post-hurricane economic policy proposals.