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Story #25 about our renovation appears in today’s Times-Picayune.

“The media… is where democracies conduct their civil wars.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, 2004

I participated today in a panel discussion at Loyola, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. Kind of funny, given that I am not a professional journalist. The topic: “Online User Comments and its impact on news coverage, news Web sites and freedom of speech.” My fellow participants were all involved in one way or [...]

The 24th story about our renovation appears in today’s Times-Picayune.

There will be a segment about Helen Hill’s unsolved murder case on America’s Most Wanted tomorrow night. I believe they’ll be using some video I shot of her jazz funeral.
Also, Helen’s brother, Jake Hill, is in New Orleans to hold a meeting and press conference at the Sound Café (2700 Chartres) this afternoon (Sept. 14th, [...]

Fiore skewers Nagin.

The 23rd story about out renovation appears in today’s Times-Picayune.

Finally the Times-Picayune runs a story on erroneous demolitions. I can’t help but get the feeling they only did this because the Wall Street Journal scooped them yesterday. It should have been on the Times-Pic’s front page two weeks ago.
Furthermore, they still got it wrong. The headline in the paper (but not online) states that [...]

The media has finally picked up the erroneous demolitions story. But strangely enough, it’s the Wall Street Journal. I wonder why the local media hasn’t covered it? Or maybe they have and I’ve missed it.
The article is worth checking out just for their picture of Karen “Gadfly” Gadbois in the classic WSJ style:

The article mentions [...]

Following up on yesterday’s post: Big thanks to Ashley Morris for putting together this swell interactive map of the City’s “imminent threat” demolition list. I’m not sure if it works on every browser, and it may take a while to load, but if you can view it you’ll be able to zoom in and move [...]

This arrived in the mail yesterday with no return address. View the large version for easier reading.

Note: I cut the writer’s name off to preserve his/her privacy.
This letter is in response to the most recent article about us in the Times-Picayune. The writer means well, but the discerning reader will not have to strain much [...]

The 22nd story about our renovation appears in today’s Times-Picayune:

A new phrase has been added to my vocabulary: nolle prosequi, Latin for “unwilling to pursue.”
The District Attorney said nolle prosequi about David Bonds’ case last week. Bonds was accused of killing Dinerral Shavers. I never knew Dinerral, but I was disturbed by news of his murder, which I wrote about in December.
The official line [...]

We’ll let the minor factual inaccuracies pass in this, the 21st article about our renovation, because Stephanie is such a nice person. But dang, Steph, this is what happens when you make up quotes!

Today the Times-Picayune is running the 20th story in their series on the renovation of our home. If you can score the print version, there’s a fun picture of Xy on our front porch.

Imagine picking up a newspaper and scanning through all the stories on the front page and finding no reference whatsoever to Katrina, no reference to the Federal Flood, no reference to the so-called recovery.
Somewhere on the planet there are places where the newspaper is full of other stories.
I wonder what that’s like.

The 19th story about our renovation appeared in today’s paper.

This past week people around the country have been all atwitter because of some remarks made by Don Imus on his radio show. Here in New Orleans people have been talking about it, just like everywhere else, I suppose. But here in New Orleans people are also talking about remarks made by Dr. Ed Blakely, [...]

Last night we had our Mid-City Recovery Action Meeting, as we do on the first Monday of every month. We’d been planning since last week to address the designs that Victory Real Estate Investments, LLC, appears to have on twenty acres of Mid-City.
What we hadn’t anticipated was Saturday’s front page story in the Times-Picayune. That [...]

Oh, as for the article about our renovation, which I mentioned earlier? I can’t find the text online, alas, but they did use a picture by yours truly:

Also in today’s paper, there’s an excellent editorial by Michael Homan.
Update: Thanks to Adrastos, I found the article about our renovation online.