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Earthlink moves in. This afternoon I spoke to Donald Berryman, the President of our Municipal Networks, to get a sense of where this stands ...

N.O. recovery could take 25 years says Bush's adviser Powell added: "It's been a bottom-up process and it's complex." ...

Sign on the counter at Rue de La Course. Free Wireless Internett!! No Myspace!! (That means you, dork!) Earlier discussion of this issue.

Levee restoration price doubles WASHINGTON -- The cost of restoring levee protection in the New Orleans area to pre-Hurricane Katrina levels...

Change this law: But the reality is that most people buying homes in the New Orleans area right now will end up with the unattractive option...

You can't go around forcing people to do unnecessary stuff just because you are incompetent. "We want all 225,000 people to get out...

Matt Taibbi's (best political writer around) piece on Abramoff.

LSU 70, Texas 60, OT The portly but nimble player known as ``Big Baby'' scored 26 points, including the decisive shot in overtime, ...

Apparently the silent partner was W's "friend."

Tigers play like crap.. still manage to beat Duke. Wake up call is coming, however. Unscientific Poll of the Day Take the poll Free Poll by ...

"Crash" is a white-supremacist movie

Bell South is about to shut down the city's free wi-fi project before it even gets started in earnest. Now telecommunication lobbyists...

Can you believe we are approaching 18 years of this?

Are earmarked to receive help from Barbara Bush . Um.. I can't.. even.. just go read the links.

Ok, T-P. I am still waiting to get my Food section back. Today's small collection of chicken salad recipes just ain't cutting it.

Only in this city would we put up with this kind of hackery. A smarmy middle-aged gossip columnist who happened to live in New Orleans duri...

Volunteers throw thousands in storm damage evidence to the curb

Myth 1: The best way to help the library is by donating books. Massive book donations from individuals, while well intentioned signs of su...

Actually, I stayed in and watched the LSU game. Luckily there is first-hand reportage available.

Your library staff is appropriately decked out in red today. Scenes from last weekend's Irish Channel parade

Saints release Aaron Brooks. New Orleans loses legendary literacy advocate.

My first love roller-coasterwise

As many of you know the Saints have a new quarterback... one whose shoulder is so badly damaged that he doesn't expect to be able to thr...

She's back and she's doing serious damage to good taste.

WASHINGTON -- The White House has rejected hurricane disaster-recovery loans at a higher rate than any other administration in the last 15 ...

This strikes me as an unusual ruling as well. The New Orleans ballot ( much like the obituary page ) has a long tradition of featuring ecc...

Ashley is handing them out here. It's a great post. Go read it. But keep in mind, I just wanted a pretense for linking to this Juvenile...

Saints sign Drew Brees to six-year deal Unscientific Poll of the Day: Take the poll Free Poll by Blog Flux

Medical school. Doctors are pricks.

Sorry about that, kid. Here we see Rudolph and Mr. Rudolph enjoying their Mardi Gras morning while houligans make mischief in the background

T-P front page. Findings by an Army Corps of Engineers-sponsored panel that the collapse of the 17th Street Canal floodwall during Hurrican...

This is just disgusting . I really don't need to add anything to Ian's remarks.

March 13, 2006 — - In a remarkable speech over the weekend, Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt recommended that America...

This morning's T-P has a good piece on the from-the-ground-up recovery planning going on through many of New Orleans's neighborhood...

Did he choke on a pretzel? For the record, I think it's a mistake for the Saints to sign Drew Brees .. we'll see.. I could be wrong....

My Space is exceedingly gay. Just sayin'

Benefit of being a major convention destination: Professional associations like ALA want to come here. This brings attention to the plight...

Remember 2004 when we had a chance to get rid of these people? Where was Matthews with his "sources" then?

.. that this site has been up for over a year now! A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette

Tan, rested, and nutty. Butler out of jail, compares herself to civil rights heroes

Daisy bows to public pressure.

People actually showed up to support these jokers. Why? They aren't coming back. Buy Saints tickets. They are an essential element ...

Cleo wants to get off

Heh "You've got a pile of stuff here" in "your country"

I'm not sure how many folks treated themselves to a viewing of last night's mayoral debate but if you were one of them you may recog...

Pete Fountain thinks he "might have been depressed"

Excellent excellent excellent I'm so glad it's once again spectator sports season in LA. Oh and speaking of which... is it too earl...

Don't know if this will work.. but hey what a fun new toy! Take the poll Free Poll by Blog Flux

For the second time in ten days, passing happy revelers have left us a sample of their delights from the previous evening. Last week's ...

Here's about all I know today: Blanco's new budget will include teacher pay raise Butler will not collect $200.00 Still running for...

WWL is reporting that Orleans Parish Clerk of Court Kimberly Williamson Butler who spent part of last year avoiding a subpoena and has spent...

I don't think anyone could have anticipated.... that Carnival 2006 could have been pulled off as well as it was. This is still a town w...

This city can have a full-blown Carnival that looks exactly like a Carnival but we can't have our pre-Katrina Food Section back? Come on...

This NYT blurb. I was at the Indian scene described. We had a good day. Details and pictures later. Today I am exhausted.

I'm kind of hazy this afternoon and very much in need of a nap before tonight's parades so this will have to be quick. If there is ...

All the way from Dallas , Atlanta and points beyond. It feels like we are going to have something close to a real Mardi Gras this year. I w...

In the same week that they seem to be doubling the number of surveillance cameras on Uptown street corners, NOPD just goes the whole nine wi...

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After a long morning of stewing and fretting about the weather, about the size and disposition of the crowds, about the number of marching b...

Yesterday I asked one of my neighbors who happens to be in the know about these things what the chances were of seeing any Uptown Indians th...

Sunday Times-Pic carried a pretty good feature story on Mardi Gras and national perceptions of New Orleans. This was noteworthy. Henri Schi...

News and pictures from this past weekend's Carnival events... but not today.. pics aren't ready. Also: Weather report is looking rea...

Holy crap someone else did notice ... and did a much better job of handling it than I ever did I must say. Also excellent photography from...

I hope we never have to live there.

Let it never be said that they are not indeed ballsy. Fitzgerald did not specify which superiors Libby may have been referring to when he ...

Okay this has got to stop. It appears that circumstances have once again conspired to bring about a situation wherein Daisy feels as though...

Here and here and here.

So announced a female participant in Saturday night's Krewe Du Vieux procession as I stood and watched alongside Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph. ...

It was a canned hunt. Only the best for Trigger Dick.

Want to see the White House deal with flood waters for a change? Thinking maybe about pooping all over Powerline? Net Disaster will destr...

And now for yet another "just go read Oyster" moment. ...I won't name names, but I'm talking about the Libertarian/Moder...

Because I don't know who bothers me more, Chris Rose or Emeril. If one is to believe Chuck's rundown of events (scroll down to ...

Feel the magic. via Michael who has a couple more fun nuggets from Friday's post.

It's a big issue about which I still have reservations too complicated to go into while I am still unable to post from home. In any cas...

Go Steelers

Last evening while mallwalking through Walgreens I noticed Bluebell King Cake flavored ice cream. The only official evidence of such a prod...

Yet another hopeless and gloomy Wa-Po piece . Doesn't mean it's not spot on, however.

Selling out Mardi Gras makes the (king cake) baby Jesus cry.

Among the many transplants to New Orleans I have encountered in my time there is a common emotional attatchment to the city most of them des...

It's a sad commentary on the state of things that this has recieved so little attention.

Late last year we learned that Holy Cross High School will not return to the neighborhood named for it. Today I hear that Rue de La Course...

Me: STANDARD LIBRARY PHONE ANSWER LINE Salesperson: Hello may I speak to (HURRICANE-DISPLACED FORMER BRANCH HEAD) Me: I'm sorry (HURR...

Wow. Scary.

Go read everything Oyster has today. That is all.

Looks like municipal elections will be held in April. Your local poling location has likely moved. T-P has printed a list of changes.

You know I was kind of on the fence about this before but this pretty much settles it. Hurricanes suck. Farmers, fishers and buyers say onl...

I've lost my pirated home access. Posting will be light until I can resolve this somehow.

To all the snake havin' Susie moms.

Walgreens on St Charles has resumed 24 hour operation! You may now satisfy your chocolate cravings whenever you wish.

Looking for Indian stuff to put up in the library I found Katy Reckdahl's Gambit piece on Tootie Montana shortly after his death last y...

While searching for bulletin board fodder for a Mardi Gras display, I came upon the website of a consumer advocacy group dealing with the sa...

Rose is back. Unfunny as ever.

Comes from da po'boy who says . Yes, the Mayor said some stupid things. But don’t tell me you didn’t have fun with them. Damn, since Nag...

I've been knocking this comparison around in my head for a few years now. There are some striking similarities between the two men. Bo...

That's what he meant.

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Every now and then Lolis Eric Elie tells 'em what they need to hear. King's message lost on politicians Monday, January 16, 2006 Lol...

This Observer piece on New Orleans and Katrina ( linked by Greg Peters ) explains more clearly than I have tried to on occasion the kind of ...