Posts In 8/2008
After hearing the family history of her adventurous great-grandmother, a free African American woman who lived in New Orleans during the Civil War, community activist Pam Dashiell knew she wanted to live in the legendary southern city.
“My own grandmother would tell me stories of the adventures she had here,” she says.
Three generations later, Dashiell brought her family history full circle. Since moving from Massachusetts, she has come to call New Orleans home, and is now a well-known organizer; Dashiell’s work in the Holy Cross neighborhood in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward took on added urgency after Hurricane Katrina…
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NEW ORLEANS — Despite new flood walls and re-strengthened levees, some of the areas most devastated by Hurricane Katrina remain perilously exposed to a repeat of the 2005 disaster, according to city leaders and hurricane experts.
Chief among the concerns, as hurricane season approaches, are money and time. The $14.6 billion hurricane protection system covering 350 miles around New Orleans may not be ready by its projected 2011 completion date, if funds are not delivered in time.
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NEW ORLEANS — The citizens of this scarred city have grown accustomed to promises of grand official projects that will infallibly transform life here but somehow never do. Their attention is diminishing.
Mayor C. Ray Nagin acknowledged problems in New Orleans’s remediation program.
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Don’t miss the World Premiere of “Independent America: Rising from Ruins,” the inspiring documentary of New Orleans’ independent business owners, their critical role in the city’s recovery and resilience, and the challenges they face three years after Katrina.
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