There are low-hanging tree branches on the Jeff Davis bike path. As MaP?? said, it can be “cruel to the tall and the swift.” I scraped my head on them last summer, one week before Katrina. Now they are worse than ever. City crews have cut the grass but not trimmed the branches.
Yesterday they [...]
The US Army Corps of Engineers now admits the failure of the 17th Street canal floodwalls was caused by a “design failure.”
Or, put it another way, my private property was flooded because of a federal screw-up.
Many ages ago, in my pre-Katrina life, I had embarked on an cinematic odyssey via Netflix, to see all the movies I’d always wanted to see but never had — in alphabetical order. Many people have thought this was an odd way to proceed, but it provides a nice mix. I’d get bored if I [...]
I went to a candidate forum last night for City Council districts A, B, C and at-large. Just as an experiment, I kept a crude scorecard as the District B candidates answered questions. I marked a + if I liked their answer, a - if I disliked it, and a 0 if it didn’t move [...]
A tip of the hat to my brother-in-law and his bride. They’re getting married today.
Xy’s in Bloomington for the event, doing something she never does — taking time off. I had wanted to go myself, but I couldn’t, because all my vacation days were hosed by Katrina. Plus, after all the layoffs, I’d feel funny [...]
I recently bemoaned the lack of any Green Party candidates in the upcoming New Orleans elections. But apparently I was wrong. Somehow, I overlooked Paul Mirarchi Massa who is running for Clerk of Criminal Court as a Green, according to the sample ballot provided by the Secretary of State.
Assuming this information is correct, his candidacy [...]
Xy and I are back in our flooded home, trying to help rebuild New Orleans.
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