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Baton Rouge (FNS)-Facing both a massive oil slick from a sunken offshore drilling platform and a second year of declining tourism revenues along the Louisiana Gulf Coast caused by high gas prices, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal today introduced a new tourism promotion that he reports is going to "...make lemons into lemonade".
Jindal, flanked by British Petroleum's Director of Marketing Dick Timoneous and the Executive Director of the Louisiana State Tourism Board, Jenna Talia, announced that the "All The Oil You Can Carry Festival" would officially commence today just east of New Orleans, and last at least through the month of May.
The long, lazy days of summer are upon us, and it's time to have a little fun-but it's also a great opportunity to volunteer a bit of spare time for a good cause.
So imagine how cool it would be if you could combine the two...and even better, do it in a way that doesn't take a bite out of your wallet...and even better yet, if it was something you and the kids could do together.
Imagine no more, because it has been done; which is why today we are going to be talking about lead in the soil of New Orleans, Operation Paydirt...and Fundred Dollar Bills.
Welcome to Algiers, Louisiana, a place where, in the best of times, people are particular about who walks by their house. In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, they got to do something about it. The Nation reports.
On Monday I attended an Edwards event at Exeter Town Hall in NH. It was NH Retail at its very best.
The Edwards stump has taken a major step forward since I saw him two weeks ago, the content has changed and the tone has shifted to that of an urgency in his current speech. The distinctions are now razor sharp between John Edwards and the rest of the field, "you have choices in this election and you need to be aware of them." The reality of where we are as a country today and the vision for where we all want to be as a people are now painted in excruciating and moving detail on one issue after another: universal health care; corruption; disenfranchisement of the citizenry; economic fairness; our two unequal school systems; global warming and conservation the list goes on ...
And it's only about 23 minutes so you can imagine, man. Follow me below the fold for the full video and the antidote.
On the second anniversary of Katrina, I attended a candlelight vigil held on the Haynes Boulevard Levee in New Orleans East. It was well attended by city officials, community leaders and regular citizens that came out that night to honor the dead and renew their commitment to bringing New Orleans East back as a viable and vibrant part of New Orleans.
As we stood on "the levee that did not fail," Cynthia Willard-Lewis, New Orleans council member from District E, urged us to
continue to talk about what we have seen and what we have heard. For two years we have seen great confusion and a sense of abandonment. And so we continue to tell the stories that hope beyond hope drives the people of Eastern New Orleans.
So in that spirit follow me below the fold to meet Jennifer and Eva, two survivors making it work in the city they love and still call home. New Orleans, cher.
I went to New Orleans for a spot of some guerrilla vlogging last month around the anniversary of Katrina.
I roamed around the city quite a bit with Eddie Mims, my favorite taxi driver, and stayed at the Hotel St. Marie in the French Quarter with my favorite restaurant staff in the Moise, like Louise, clan from Hillery's on Toulouse: Ed; Hillery; Katie; Gregory and Thaddeus. It was nice to see all of them again and to see that they' re still surviving in the city they love so dearly.
This diary is just a coming attractions. I hope you read these vlogs or watch some of the tape in them and think about people living down on the Gulf Coast who have been effected by Katrina and Rita because what Katrina spared Rita then took that year. An area the size of Great Britain was wiped out between those two storms and so many thousands struggle to reclaim their lives and their homes from the water, the politics, the storm - that damn storm.
At the end of a long and winding road through the state the Edwards family wrapped up their bus tour with a Town Hall event on the banks of the river at lovely Prescott Park in downtown Portsmouth, NH which was well attended by more than a thousand people.
Edwards takes questions at every event and this half of the vlog (vee-vlog) contains the full Q and A for the event; there were some amazing moments that night, but none more than when Nebraska showed up to thank Mrs. Edwards and took the opportunity to tell Edwards:
I just want you to do something about health care and fix it, please, without compromising health care because that's why I'm alive today.
If you'd like to see the full remarks, check out part one of this vlog, he gave some great remarks too so those clips might be worth a viewing.
September 9, 2007 - Univision Forum (Spanish)
September 26, 2007 - Hanover, New Hampshire
October 30, 2007 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 15, 2007 - Las Vegas, Nevada
December 10, 2007 - Los Angeles, California
January 6, 2008 - Johnson County, Iowa
January 15, 2008 - Las Vegas, Nevada
January 31, 2008 - California
I went to New Orleans last month to do some guerrilla vlogging. I asked people what they wanted to say about New Orleans today and their future. I asked people what they wanted me to know about their city. They wanted me to tell you that they're alive.
They are alive.
It's not the politics. It's not the water. It's not the death and devastation. It's not the humiliation that Katrina brought to all of our homes through the scenes of government failure and abandonment.
They are alive and they want you to know it's okay to come back. They need you to come back.
In this installment of the NOLA Speaks series we take a tour through the Ninth Ward through the "high water" areas that got as much as 20 ft. of water when the levees failed. Eddie Mims is our guide. So follow me below the fold and take a ride with Eddie.
Okay so this clip is really not in the spirit of Friday Cat Blogging, but meet Kojak Davis. He's a small business owner in the Marigny in NOLA. I interviewed him for my NOLA Speaks series. He gave me the greatest interview and touched on so many aspects of the Katrina story. This clip is the final clip in the interview.
direct link to video: Cat blogging with Kojak (5:57)
The full vlog can be seen at dailykos: Vlog: NOLA Speaks - Meet Kojak Davis
I went to New Orleans recently to do some guerrilla vlogging. I asked people what they wanted to say about New Orleans today and their future. I asked people what they wanted me to know about their city. They wanted me to tell you that they're alive.
They are alive.
It's not the politics. It's not the water. It's not the death and devastation. It's not the humiliation that Katrina brought to all of our homes through the scenes of government failure and abandonment.
They are not pathetic, doomed, corrupt, racist, lawless or any such nonsense.
They are alive and struggling to bring themselves back from the absolute worst thing that any one of us can face in our own lives. They got wiped out.
But they are alive and I've got the tape to prove it. Follow me below the fold to meet Ed and Hillery Moise.
Sununu backs proposal to create hurricane Katrina inspector general, 9/20/2005:
"Americans expect a strong federal response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina - and demand that their taxpayer dollars are spent responsibly in the process. We have spent as much as $2 billion per day on the recovery, creating an urgent need for visible, ongoing oversight," said Sununu.
Chicago Tribune, 1/30/2007:
"There is not a sense of urgency in this administration to get this done," said the senator from Illinois. "You get a sense that will has been lacking in the last several months."
Obama, the Senate's only African-American member, was in New Orleans for a field hearing on Gulf Coast rebuilding conducted by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
...The hearing is one of the first that the Homeland Security Committee has scheduled since the Senate passed to Democratic control. No Republican members attended.
Nota Bene: John Sununu is a Republican member of the Homeland Security Committee.
On Monday I attended an Edwards event at Exeter Town Hall in NH. It was NH Retail at its very best.
On the second anniversary of Katrina, I attended a candlelight vigil held on the Haynes Boulevard Levee in New Orleans East. It was well attended by city officials, community leaders and regular citizens that came out that night to honor the dead and renew their commitment to bringing New Orleans East back as a viable and vibrant part of New Orleans.
At the end of a long and winding road through the state the Edwards family wrapped up their bus tour with a Town Hall event on the banks of the river at lovely Prescott Park in downtown Portsmouth, NH which was well attended by more than a thousand people.
I went to New Orleans last month to do some guerrilla vlogging. I asked people what they wanted to say about New Orleans today and their future. I asked people what they wanted me to know about their city. They wanted me to tell you that they're alive.
I went to New Orleans recently to do some guerrilla vlogging. I asked people what they wanted to say about New Orleans today and their future. I asked people what they wanted me to know about their city. They wanted me to tell you that they're alive.
