Posts In 2/2009
Silence Is Violence and community partners want YOU to help kick off a spring peace campaign tonight by taking to the streets with the V.I.P. Ladies and Kids Social Aid and Pleasure Club for a little New Orleans-style marching.
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Our friend over at Tulane,Francine Stock, handily mapped the 4,450 hurricane damaged lots destined for reprogramming at the hands of New Orleans Redevelopment Authority. The dense brown dots covering the Lower Ninth Ward, Gentilly, eastern New Orleans, Lakeview, and St. Bernard Parish speak for themselves. Click this link to check out the landscape of vacancy for yourself.
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Did cruelty live in the bones of this late pastel double joined shotgun -or is the world really this evil?
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We are officially living in a war zone.
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I was pleased to see this article in the Times Picayune
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This past summer the news about the breaking NOAH scam was on the tips of everyone’s tongue.
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The Boston Globe reports today compelling evidence in support of the long-debated “broken windows” policing theory that says disorderly conditions breed bad behavior, and that fixing them can help prevent crime.
According to the story researchers working with police in Lowell, Massachusetts found that when street cleaning and patrolling services were improved in 17 crime hot spots around the city, the number of calls made to the police plunged by 20 percent. The number of calls remained steady throughout that time in areas where services were not improved.
The study holds relevance to New Orleans, a city with the dubious…
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In October 2008 The New Orleans Institute hosted New Orleans Speaks: We are the Ones We’ve been Waiting For. The event included single presenters and panels, highlighting examples of ‘home-grown’ responses to the challenges the city and region have faced since the levees broke in 2005. Here is the highlights reel;
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Just in time for Mardi Gras and to make everyone look away from the ongoing crime crisis..
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OC Haley has emerged over the past few years as a prime example of what can happen when creative minds converge in a fallow urban space. After decades of neglect and disinvestment, the once-bustling shopping street is slowly regenerating with the energy of non-profits, small businesses and a few socially-minded enterprises such as Ashe Cultural Center, Cafe Reconcile and Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center. A historic anchor of the corridor, the Franz Building, is now in the midst of a $2.1 million rehabilitation. The 68,000-square-foot storefront, built in 1915, will return to life as a modern home for a non-profit business…
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Ethan Brown over at Talkleft raises important question about the state of the federal investigation into New Orleans Affordable Home Ownership Program: where is it?
Has the investigation dissolved? Is it plodding forward? Does anyone care up there in the long hallways of the Department of Justice?
“Thinking about the lack of progress in the NOAH case I couldn’t help but be reminded of a piece by Scott Horton in Harper’s last year on the Jack Abramoff case,” Brown writes before going on to open the possibility that investigations into the Abramoff case case as well as NOAH could be…
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After a slow weekend of musings on the 2010 mayoral race, Vietnamese New Years celebrations ( TET IT UP!) and sunshine, Monday rolled in with gloomy economic news, more wrecking balls, clouds and at least interesting event notice.
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