Month: September 2005

Now that the press has been barred from photographing the dead, remaining New Orleans residents are being driven from their homes, and the city is under military rule, it turns out there aren’t so many bodies after all. If...

(cross posted on My Left Wing and BetterCA.com) Despite the assertions of it’s backers, Prop. 75 is designed only to weaken the political power of public employees and increase the political power of big business special...

 This is my first diary. I’m not usually one to write on message boards or post comments, but for more than a week, I’ve read every word, every post, on Katrina and its aftermath. And I’ve wanted to reply...

Why was FEMA’s response to Katrina so apathetic?  Why did FEMA prevent help from arriving earlier, and discourage aid from outside sources for so long? Let’s put a few things together and see what we get. In...

Louis Edwards, a New Orleans novelist and an associate producer of the Jazz and Heritage Festival, said, “No other city is so equipped to deal with this.” A French Quarter resident, Mr. Edwards was taking refuge last...