The current garbage collection dilemma in New Orleans is all about politics and money who wants it, who has it and the citizens who are going to pay more every month.
It has been known for a while now that Hurricane Ida was a deadly and destructive hurricane last year, making it the second-most damaging hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana with intensive winds, tornado outbreaks, and flooding. Now, Healthy Gulf has released a report indicating that the tropical noreaster that hit on August 29, 2021 […]
Ret. Lieutenant General Russell Honore issued a scathing rebuke to Louisianas oil and gas industry on Tuesday for its greed and gross negligence. In the typical style for which Honore has become recognized as one of America’s leading environmental advocates, he demanded that the oil corporations not taxpayers foot the bill to remediate […]
Just before co-hosting a jam-packed town hall meeting at Houmas Bayou Cane Fire Department with frustrated survivors of Hurricane Ida, Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser said Friday morning that Louisiana must have a five-year plan to save Louisianas coast. We dont need a 50-year plan. We need a five-year plan to save our coast, Nungesser told […]
A calm but defiant City Council President Helena Moreno led other members in a full-throttle preliminary dialogue of Entergys actions before, during and in response to Hurricane Ida while Entergy sought to minimize their responsibility and signal possible change in the very nature of its decades-long and extremely profitable relationship with the City of New […]
The four almost 200 year-old historic buildings in Armstrong Park along with the Morris F.X. Jeff Municipal Auditorium suffered extensive damage during Hurricane Ida, according to the Save Our Soul (SOS) coalition which has been opposing the relocation of City Hall to the auditorium. The damage that Hurricane Ida inflicted to the Municipal Auditorium and […]
Here in Southeast Louisiana, we take our food seriously. Were hunters, Were fishers. Were cooks. Nothing says love like a homemade Louisiana meal that comes from the kitchen. Whether its a gumbo, a stock, some game meat, or bone broth, in Louisiana food just means something different. On top of that we are, admittedly, food […]
Resilient, /r??zily?nt/, adjective 1. (of a person or animal) able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. The word resilient is one that has been oft-used to describe those of us in Louisiana who survived Hurricane Katrina. A description one finds in media spectacles, political assurances, and academic studies. However, this notion of resiliency […]
Dear President Biden, I am Leilani Heno and I am running for mayor of the city of New Orleans. We have just suffered a catastrophic disaster (Hurricane Ida). Every report shows that we are receiving FEMA money. I am personally feeding people with money out of my own pocket, and from others willing to […]
Todays announcement by Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin that our fall elections will be slightly postponed due to Hurricane Ida was expected by many political insiders. The new dates are November 13, 2021 for the primary election (previously set for October 9) and December 11, 2021 for the general election (previously set for November […]
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