Month: August 2005

Nat’l Guard, Equipment in Iraq

More than 3,000 members of the Louisiana Nat’l Guard’s 256th Brigade serving in Iraq will return home in October, unless their tour is extended. Worse yet, all of their high-water-level equipment, vehicles and generators...

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Inside the WH Press Corps

Cintra Wilson shares an excellent reporter’s-eye-view of Scott McClellan’s sweaty days in July, when the Whitehouse Press Corps actually kinda sorta did their jobs. In her Salon article “I invaded the White...

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Superdome’s Roof Peeling Off

Please share any stories you see or hear. I woke up to TV headlines saying that there are “complete structural failures” in New Orleans. Does that extend to major new buildings downtown? What about the hotels housing...

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One Woman In a Ditch/ Part I

[From the diaries by susanhu. What a story. We must compile all of your Crawford stories and preserve them.] My dear friends, I have returned from a journey I will never forget. There is so much to tell it will not be possible...

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