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Archive for 27 October 2009
posted by
GNOF | 27 October 2009
New Orleans has always had a close, even essential relationship with water. Almost like a traditional but tempestuous marriage. For better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; in sickness and in health. Early on, the City and its founders were struck by the power and beauty of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, but more importantly they…
Read the rest of ‘Til Death Do Us Part »
posted by
GNOF | 21 October 2009
Since the difficult years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, St. Bernard Parish has managed to accomplish a number of quite remarkable things…
Read the rest of St. Bernard Parish at a Critical Crossroads »
posted by
GNOF | 13 October 2009
George McCarthy with the Ford Foundation and Ashleigh Gardere with JP Morgan Chase Foundation are co-chairs of the Neighborhood Funders Group conference meeting in New Orleans this week. NFG is a membership organization that supports community-based efforts to improve economic and social conditions in low-income communities.
Read the rest of Recover. Rebuild. Renew. »
posted by
GNOF | 6 October 2009
Waxings and Wanings from “Moon” Landrieu, mayor of New Orleans between 1970 – 1978 and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President Jimmy Carter…
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posted by
Albert | 1 October 2009
I love New Orleans because every once in a while in a local magazine I read a letter to the editor like this one …
Read the rest of Why I Love New Orleans: Part 1 »
