Man opens heliport on residential land in new Orleans. Plans to expand and open an aviation school.

"The Lens, a Web site centered on New Orleans, hopes to become part of a new model for investigative reporting. It is regionally based and is trying to take up and expand in-depth reporting, which many newspapers have cut back on due to dwindling profits and staff cuts. It's an attempt to solve the question: With so much access to free information through the Internet, why would anyone want to pay for journalism?"

series of conferences around Dutch planning/design/water management techniques and New Orleans.

"barge that became infamous when it went over or through a levee and landed in a the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina."

CVS cam video of landing at Louis Armstrong Intl taken 18 months ago. I thought that this upload didn't work, but I guess it did.

Great/chilling. Filled with amazing details. (scroll past extended intro for article).

MAXIMAL ASSIDUOUSNESS

"collection of the most striking Gulf Coast signs that appeared following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."

"asks what is to be done to secure basic structural changes in American society. [Is] a meeting ground [for] tactics and strategies for [the] radical reconstruction of American institutions."

"In 1874 the failure of Northern Radicals to launch a militant, armed riposte to the white insurrection in New Orleans helped to doom the first Reconstruction. Will our feeble response to Hurricane Katrina now lead to the rollback of the second?"

New Urbanist initiative for New Orleans. Holding charrettes now. Gotta compliment them on their branding.

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