I believe an unaired Kathleen Blanco interview is available at this link. If that link doesn't work, go here and search for "Trailer Crunch". Presumably it's about the housing situation, but since it didn't make it on to ABC's news that probably means either that there's nothing in there, or there is something but they're […]
The NYT reports on canvas and plywood tent cities being constructed in Mississippi. Frankly, they don't sound that overly bad:
The tents, built by the Navy Seabees at a cost of $1 million, can be heated and cooled, and have plywood floors and walls that create an 18-by-32-foot wooden box inside the exterior fabric. They are […]
From November 4 came the NYT's "In Louisiana, Worker Influx Causes Ill Will". While not as overtly biased as other article reporting on illegal aliens taking jobs from American hurricane victims, it does give unanswered voice to those who support that un-American practice:
…The focus on Hispanic immigrants worries people like Representative Nydia M. Velázquez of […]
What with all the talk about more per capita deaths of whites than blacks, NBC seems to have struck back. On tonight's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams announced - somewhat triumphantly - that racism had been discovered in the housing situation for evacuees. I only caught the last part of the report, and it doesn't […]
If the ever-excitable Paul at Wizbang Blog is in the habit of deleting comments, can you trust his posts? Since contrary information is frequently mentioned in comments, has he deleted any other comments with which he disagreed?
Begging your pardon in advance for the inside blogospheric nature of this issue, here's what happened in chronological order.
First, […]
USAToday offers "Amid ruins, 'island' of normalcy in the Big Easy":
…"If you stay on the island, you can almost pretend it didn't happen," says Margaret Jones, co-owner of a stationery shop on Magazine Street that stayed dry during the storm.
Just a block beyond the "sliver on the river," another new nickname, the 75% of the […]
The Los Angeles Times offers this, however a similar story was linked here in October: Deaths occured throughout NO.
…"The fascinating thing is that it's so spread out," said Joachim Singelmann, director of the Louisiana Population Data Center at Louisiana State University. "It's not just the Lower 9th Ward or New Orleans East, which everybody has […]
Manuel Roig-Franzia of the WaPo has a three-screener called "In New Orleans, No Easy Work for Willing Latinos". The first screen is where the sucker punch lands on American workers, and the last two screens are just a long anecdote.
The article explains how those "Latinos" (actually, illegal aliens from Mexico) work in unsafe conditions and, […]
The Army Corps of Engineers said the plan for improved levees that is being pushed by President George Bush is a good one for the areas where levees breached but will do nothing to protect the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans East or St. Bernard Parish.
…The plan calls for closing off the levees at the […]
Various left-wing groups are trying to get 300,000 emails demanding Category 5 protection and other goodies.
Take a deep breath and read the organizations involved:
All Congregations Together * Alliance for Affordable Energy * Atchafalaya Basinkeeper * Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program * Baton Rouge Audubon Society * Black Bear Conservation Committee * Citizens Against Widening the Industrial […]
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