http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/neworleans/ en-us Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:26:05 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410468/posts The soul of the city is coming off the practice field and headed toward the showers. They are a motley group, undrafted guys and late-round fliers, players cast off from other teams. Brees landed in town after an injury convinced the Chargers that his best days were behind him. "When we came here," he has said, "I was in the process of rebuilding, as well." Quarterback Drew Brees and the Saints' potent offense have produced a 13-0 record heading into their home game Saturday night against Dallas. Running back Mike Bell was out of football. So was cornerback Mike McKenzie,... ESPN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410468/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:26:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408366/posts A St. Rose man armed with a semiautomatic hand gun was shot and killed by a homeowner after attempting to burglarize a home in St. Rose just before 1 a.m. this morning. Michael Cockerham, 21, of Turtle Creek Lane in St. Rose, was shot and killed by Tyrone Taylor, 53, after kicking down the rear door of Taylor's residence in the 300 block of First Street in St. Rose. Cockerham was located in a yard a few houses away with a single gunshot wound to his abdomen. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the St. Charles Parish Coronor's... Nola.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408366/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:39:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406093/posts BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU's governing board has agreed to the expropriation of property to build a new public teaching hospital in New Orleans and a nearby new veterans hospital. Without objection Friday, the LSU Board of Supervisors approved the use of expropriation. The resolution allows state officials working on the projects to seek a court order to seize private property if the owners refuse to sell. A judge would decide the purchase price the state must pay. More than 450 separately-owned parcels of land are located in the footprint of the planned U.S. Veterans Affairs' hospital and the $1.2... WWL TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406093/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:27:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405003/posts WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will not be hitting the Big Easy for a planned fundraiser Friday hosted by the Louisiana senator who secured a $100 million Medicaid boost for her state in the proposed Senate health reform bill. The Senate is scheduled to remain in session again this weekend as senators vote on a package of annual spending bills while awaiting a cost assessment on the latest health care proposals. A Reid spokesman confirmed the senator would not be attending the New Orleans fundraiser, which was to be co-hosted by Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. The Hill newspaper... Las Vegas Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405003/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:25:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401109/posts ...In 2007, frustrated by the slow pace of rebuilding in the Lower Ninth, Brad Pitt set up a foundation called Make It Right; the foundation then commissioned 13 architecture firms to design affordable, green houses... Indeed, from the main route into the Lower Ninth, the Claiborne Avenue Bridge, it’s impossible to miss the Brad Pitt Houses, as everyone here calls them. They are sprawling, angular buildings in bold hues not usually seen outside a gelateria... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401109/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 19:51:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400405/posts The victim told authorities she and her little brother were standing at a bus stop at South Upland Avenue and Newton Street in River Ridge about 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 13 when she noticed a "purple" car following them. The driver, a man, rolled down his window and asked the little boy for the girl's name, which the boy provided, the arrest report said. The girl, who got scared, got on the bus. The girl told authorities she noticed the car following the bus to her school, Hazel Park Elementary School, 8809 Jefferson Highway, in River Ridge, the arrest report... Nola http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400405/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:27:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390843/posts Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., will host a fundraiser for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in New Orleans next month, an event that comes on the heels of Reid's assistance getting Louisiana a windfall of Medicaid money in the health care reform bill. Times Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390843/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381924/posts Conservatives need to take a deep breath, relax, and stop bashing Joseph Cao. The man never claimed to be a fully committed economic conservative. He represents a district that is about 75 percent Democrat and 62 percent black (or thereabouts). He SAID ALL ALONG, FOR MONTHS, that he would probably vote for health care reform if it included strong pro-life language such as the Stupak Amendment. He stuck to his guns, even though his district is not majority pro-life. He is a traditionalist Catholic, former Jesuit seminarian, and he stands up for the principles he holds dear, one of which... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381924/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 04:22:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381305/posts Contact information: Washington, D.C. Office: 2113 Rayburn House Office Building, District of Columbia 20515-1802 Phone: (202) 225-6636 Fax: (202) 225-1988 New Orleans Office: (more district offices) 4640 South Carrollton Avenue, Suite 120 New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 Phone: (504) 483-2325 Fax: (504) 483-7944 New Orleans Office: 4640 South Carrollton Avenue, Suite 120 New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 Phone: (504) 483-2325Fax: (504) 483-7944 web contact formIt would be appropriate to let him know how much we appreciate his vote. Not for the value of the vote, but because he gave the Dhims cover to say that it was "bipartisan." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381305/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:28:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381374/posts THE REPUBLICAN THAT VOTED WITH OBAMA-PELOSI-REID AND THE REST OF THE DEMOCRAT COMMUNIST PARTY * Posted by gary on November 8, 2009 at 1:44am in General, Uncategorized Town Hall * Add as Friend View Discussions JUST LIKE COMMUNIST VIETNAM HE CAST HIS VOTE WITH THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST A Prized Republican on the Ropes Joseph Cao was hailed six months ago as the future of the GOP. Yesterday, he voted to rebuke Joe Wilson. Can the most endangered Republican in the House survive? By Benjamin Sarlin. As he made his way to the podium to give his health-care speech last Wednesday—a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381374/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 06:49:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381181/posts NEW ORLEANS – State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the organization's national headquarters was based in New Orleans."This is an investigation of everything — ACORN, the national organization, the local organization and all of its affiliated entities, specifically as it relates to any potential violations of Louisiana law," Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell said.ACORN staff on the scene declined to comment, but an attorney for the group said in a statement the raid was prompted by allegations that former ACORN... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381181/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:27:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380226/posts Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has served a search warrant at the ACORN office at 2609 Canal Street, according to Tammi Arender Herring, a spokeswoman with the office. Investigators in khaki pants and polo shirts loaded several dozen computers and other electronic items into an SUV. They are also carrying records out of the building on handcarts. The large office building sits at the corner of Dorgenois and Canal. ACORN staffers were given no notice that a search would be conducted today, Herring said. "They have been extremely cooperative," she said. Early last month, Caldwell's office issued subpoenas for records from... Times-Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380226/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:36:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380215/posts In a fast-breaking development comes word that agents of the Attorney’s General office in Louisiana have raided ACORN’s offices in New Orleans. ACORN’s New Orleans was, for decades, the headquarters of the national community organizing association. News of the raid comes from Marcel Reid and her colleagues at ACORN 8, an association of former ACORN leaders and board members. Many of the individuals involved with ACORN 8 were fired from ACORN for demanding a forensic audit following an embezzlement scandal involving Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN co-founder Wade Rathke. Check back her for more details, as well as a statement... big gov't http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380215/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:24:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380383/posts In a fast-breaking development comes word that agents of the Attorney’s General office in Louisiana have raided ACORN’s offices in New Orleans. ACORN’s New Orleans was, for decades, the headquarters of the national community organizing association. News of the raid comes from Marcel Reid and her colleagues at ACORN 8, an association of former ACORN leaders and board members. Many of the individuals involved with ACORN 8 were fired from ACORN for demanding a forensic audit following an embezzlement scandal involving Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN co-founder Wade Rathke. . Update: Big Government has contacted the Louisiana Attorney’s General office.... Breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380383/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:38:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373624/posts A Food and Drug Administration decision to impose draconian new rules on oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico could wreck Louisiana's $300 million-a-year industry and restrict the diets of raw oyster lovers here and elsewhere for most of the year -- all in a misguided effort to prevent a serious but rare health threat. The FDA announced guidelines, to go into effect in 2011, that would require all Gulf oysters harvested from April through October to undergo a sterilization process before they can be sold. That could double or even triple the cost of Louisiana oysters for consumers and... Nola.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373624/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:15:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373610/posts New Orleans not only faces a $68 million budget shortfall for 2010. City government is running more than $30 million in the red this year, due in large part to a sharp drop in sales tax revenue, officials said Wednesday. Earlier optimistic assessments that huge post-Katrina investments in New Orleans would insulate the city from the worst effects of a national recession have proved wrong, city economist Jerome Lomba told the city's Revenue Estimating Conference. City sales tax revenue for 2009, projected last fall to total $157 million, is now expected to fall $23 million short of that amount, in... Nola.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373610/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:10:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372823/posts At the small warehouse tucked away in the back side of the French Quarter, the shuckers at P&J Oyster Co. have arrived before daybreak for 133 years. Their in-shell and shucked oysters have been on the menus of generations of restaurateurs, from oysters on the halfshell at Acme Oyster House and Casemento’s to the seafood gumbo at Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse. In less than two years, the tradition could become obsolete for seven months out of the year, based on newly announced oyster guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration. In an effort to reduce cases of a rare, but potentially... Nola.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372823/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:22:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368308/posts For more than a decade, Stephen Bradberry has served in various roles for ACORN's New Orleans operations, but none of them -- perhaps with the notable exception of picking up the pieces after Hurricane Katrina -- involved the obvious challenges of his new role as a temporary administrator of the state community action network. That's the assignment ACORN National President Maude Hurd handed to him after the national board voted over the weekend to take over the Louisiana operation as part of an ongoing rift between the parent organization and the leaders of its one-time home base. Bradberry, who came... The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368308/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:12:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368304/posts As he returns to New Orleans today after a six-day junket in Cuba, Mayor Ray Nagin almost certainly will face questions about the latest addition to his collection of controversial comments. Nagin told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he thinks Cuba's repressive regime does "a much better job" than U.S. officials of identifying citizen needs and deploying resources in the face of hurricanes, which routinely batter the Caribbean nation. Though Hurricanes Gustav, Ike and Paloma all struck the island last year, only seven Cubans were killed, in part because authorities use soldiers to close highways and enforce evacuations. Harking... The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368304/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:07:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2367435/posts The Archdiocese of New Orleans and its charitable arm, Catholic Charities, said Tuesday they will pay $5.182 million to an undisclosed number of adults who claimed that years ago as children they were beaten, berated and sexually molested at two Catholic orphanages that were supposed to shelter them because their families were in disarray. The archdiocese announced a package settlement of 20 lawsuits, most of them filed by adults alleging that in the 1950s and 1960s they were abused at Madonna Manor and nearby Hope Haven on the West Bank. "I hope these mediations and negotiations will bring some peace... The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2367435/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:23:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366500/posts Ratcheting up the hostilities between ACORN's national leadership and the Louisiana chapter of the community action network, the parent organization voted this weekend to take over the local division and install a national employee to succeed the longtime local boss who was fired last week. Yet local ACORN leaders, including the recently deposed Beth Butler, say they are nearing completion of a long-planned separation from the national organization, setting up shop in new offices but under the same name. The competing moves are the latest developments in an ongoing power struggle between the national entity and its original chapter, and... Nola.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366500/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:12:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365941/posts A small but important group of workers at the Audubon Zoo has voted to join the Teamsters union. Audubon's zookeepers voted 17-14 to join Teamsters Local 270. Despite the close vote, the zoo's management has decided not to challenge the election results, and the union will now be certified as the workers' official bargaining agent. Zookeepers work directly with the animals in exhibits such as the Asian domain and primate center, but their ranks do not include animal curators, who are considered part of management. Audubon has a total staff of about 600, including 450 full-time workers. The Teamsters represent... Nola.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365941/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:05:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365920/posts Come for the Disaster Preparedness Lecture, Stay for the Totalitarianism   [Mark Hemingway] It was in the web briefing yetserday, but my eyes nearly popped out of my head when I finally read "New Orleans mayor learns about disaster response in Cuba." So one day after President Obama is in the Big Easy, Mayor Ray Nagin heads off to Cuba to learn about disaster preparedness? What does the Cuban government possibly have to teach us? Here's the Cuban disaster preparedness plan in a nutshell: Kill off the private economy for 50 years so that when a hurricane comes you don't have... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365920/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:39:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365265/posts Thomas Lee White spent a year in prison for another man's mistake. But White's own error has left him with little legal recourse. A federal appellate court ruled late last month that White -- who was jailed in New Orleans for public drunkenness, mistakenly identified and then lost in the state penal system for a full year after Hurricane Katrina -- has no right to a federal civil lawsuit because he didn't file the suit fast enough. He is one of countless former jail inmates who appear to have been deprived of their constitutional right to due process in the... Times Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365265/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:51:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364569/posts NOPD keeps moving protest back, at the end, one arrested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUu5ZgU9xvk&feature=player_embedded http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364569/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:51:14 GMT