When Last I Looked this was What Was Happening in New Orleans
It has been a while since I’ve read the paper or the blogs. I had a round up of points of interest online. It is as follows.
think Detroit
Matt Hampel of ArborWiki the sister wiki to the New Orleans Wiki sent me a link to think Detroit, a blog about Detroit City and its redevelopment.
R-Rated Response to an Outrageous Insult
Ashely Morris responds with a few four-letter words interspersed into a cathartic rebuttal in A Language Lesson of a typical slander of the Cutting Through the Katrina Krappola.
Our Poor Mayor Can’t Get a Break, Man
While Silence is Violence commemorated the year since the crime march on City Hall, Mayor C. Ray Nagin was at a press conference to announce that the French Quarter would get some sidewalk repairs. Shortly thereafter it turns out that the contractor has been delisted from NASDAQ and is facing a controversy with it’s shareholders. From Disaster Rebuilder Faces Storm:
On Jan. 7, Home Solutions’ stock, selling for around $1 a share after having peaked at about $14 in 2006, was removed from the Nasdaq exchange after the company acknowledged two of its quarterly filings were unreliable. A few days later, Home Solutions announced it had failed to make loan payments.
Amid that backdrop, Sewell fired off a scathing letter to the SEC in which he accused Fradella and other company officers of various improper practices. Sewell and others claim that Fradella and other company officials have made millions selling their Home Solutions stock after making misleading announcements that caused the share price to rise substantially. In other cases, the company has borrowed against bogus expected revenue, he alleges.
Now it seems that anytime Nagin shows his face, we can use it as a jumping off point to explore a new scandal.
Ray Shea and David Simon on The Wire
Local blogger Ray Shea writes about the use of 12-step programs as an metaphor for the sickness in our society and our inability to be honest about them: “The bad schools and poverty and corrupt politicians and ass-kissing newspaper editors are just symptoms. The real story, the real problem that needs to be addressed is an insane America, a country with a spiritual sickness based on self-interest.” This comes from an article callled Rigorous Honesty from The Wire fan blog Got that New Package! The Wire creator David Simon responds in the comments.
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