Special Report: How climate pressure is reshaping insurance, infrastructure, housing, and the city’s economic future. The latest climate warnings about Louisiana landed with the kind of force that has become increasingly familiar across south Louisiana. Maps showing disappearing land spread rapidly across social media and national news coverage. Headlines warned that entire communities along the […]
New Orleans is already living through New Orleans climate crisis change. While other cities plan for a future of rising seas and intensifying storms, we’ve been navigating that reality for decades. The storms come faster. The heat lingers longer. And the systems that are supposed to protect us? Cracking at the seams. This isn’t just […]
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. The aerial view of Hurricane Ida damage clearly shows the widespread devastation caused across the region. Now, Healthy […]
Ret. Lieutenant General Russell Honore issued a scathing rebuke to Louisiana's 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 Houma's 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 Louisiana's coast. "We don't 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 Entergy's 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 Municipal Auditorium New Orleans—also known as 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 […]
Here in Southeast Louisiana, we take our food seriously. We're hunters, We're fishers. We're cooks. Nothing says love like a homemade Louisiana meal that comes from the kitchen. Whether it's 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 […]
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