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• Corps' NOLA 'storm-proofing' running out of ...

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  Corps' NOLA 'storm-proofing' running out of money
  Although the money was estimated long before any projects were designed, a Hurricane Protection Office supervisor predicted this week that it will be enough to deliver what the corps promised during a lengthy environmental evaluation of stormproofing plans: 15 of Jefferson Parish's [...]
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  Posted: December 21, 2009, 8:31am EST
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• N.O. pump 'storm-proofing' ...

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  N.O. pump 'storm-proofing' may run out of money~Sheila Grissett [...]
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  Posted: December 20, 2009, 9:35pm EST
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• Late post because of you know who'dat...sigh

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  We'll just leave it to Mr. Gloomy Pants...
  
  The Katrina Myth video will go home with all St. Bernard Project volunteers ~Levees.org
  Herolleros!
  Editilla's Brass Balls Award goes to Levees.org!
  
  ASIAN CARP: Army Corps has proven itself to be incompetent
  
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  Posted: December 20, 2009, 8:56pm EST
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• Flashback, 1950: ...

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  Flashback, 1950: Suburbanizing
  New Orleans: the end of Charity?
  ~Patrice Frey
  ~The current LSU and VA development plan abandons Charity Hospital, one of New Orleans’ most iconic buildings, in favor of a disjointed and sprawling medical campus located to the west of the Charity [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2009, 7:30am EST
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• Ed Murray say Pay No Attention ...

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  Ed Murray say Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Levee!
  ~Editilla sho'willas~ Who is this Boo'dat???
  We have been waiting for the Clueless Political Opportunists (CPO) that might pick up this Chip and take a seat at our table.
  We had such high hopes for Leslie Jacobs [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 1:48pm EST
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• The “Mitch The Mayor” video!~Kevin ...

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  The “Mitch The Mayor” video!
  ~Kevin Allman, Gambit
  ~Editilla Herolerras!~
  Oh yeah! This Gumshoe has got it goin'on!
  Kevin Allman is the News Bartenda!
  Lines'em Up, Knocks'em Down! Yes! Hey, News'tenda!
  I'm lookin'fo some strange, wha'chu got today?
  "Welll, Hey there Editilla! How'z yer'Hammer Hangin?
  NO PROBLEMO! How about'" [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• St. Charles Parish ...

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  St. Charles Parish prepares for more rain; officials ask residents to curtail water use
  
  What Dumbass would want to live on a cliff that erodes into the sea, when they could come and live 'happiest' in New Orleans?
  [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:11pm EST
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• Live Oak Levees ...

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  Live Oak Levees in Louisiana, Why Not?~Quinta Scott
  ~Live oak along Bayou Chene, Avoca Island
  ~The following quotation from my upcoming book,
  The Mississippi, explains the vulnerability of levees:
  “As massive as they are, levees are fragile come floodtime.
  Leave a stick in the levee [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• Costco Removes Tomatoes In Anticipation Of ...

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  Costco Removes Tomatoes In Anticipation Of Palin Visit ~Wonkette~Once upon a time a very long time ago (last week), a man attempted to throw a tomato at Sarah Palin and missed. The Salt Lake City Costco, determined not to allow the greatest possible attempted horror in world history [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 1:10pm EST
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• Clown Show I~Library Chronicles~Edwin ...

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  Clown Show I
  ~Library Chronicles
  ~Edwin Edwards once said of Dave Treen, "He takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes" Well I just spent about 5 hours watching, pausing, making notes on, walking away from, coming back to and watching more of what was only about [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• Corps: Want quicker ...

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  Corps: Want quicker levees?
  Ask Congress~Nikki Buskey
  
  December rain has already set a record for New Orleans
  ~Mark Schleifstein [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 5:58pm EST
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• Levee authority, Corps ...

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  Levee authority, Corps closing Company Canal gate Westwego
  
  St. Bernard Parish distributing sandbags to residents
  
  Parish made levee overtopped in St. Charles Parish~Update
  ~More Heavy Weather ~WWL
  ~USGS River Flood Gauge Readings
  New Orleans,LA ~ [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 10:52am EST
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• 30-year Corps Veteran-turned- Tetra Tech-senior-flood-control- engineer ...

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  30-year Corps Veteran-turned- Tetra Tech-senior-flood-control- engineer proposes alternative Corps levee study to Independent 8/29 Review
  ~Bob Hall is Tetra Tech's senior flood control engineer, overseeing engineering studies, reports, and designs. He has nearly 40 years of experience in the field, including 30 years with the Los Angeles District of' [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• Recent Ruling Shows True Tragedy of ...

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  Recent Ruling Shows True Tragedy of Katrina was Federal Government's Creation of the Disaster Itself~Sandy Rosenthal
  ~Editilla Congratulatas~ Yay Sandy and levees.org for getting onto Huffington Posts! Bout'damn Time!
  
  OSC Honors Katrina Pumps Whistleblower With 2009 Public Service Award~Maria Garzino’s Multiple Disclosures Detail Unsafe Pumps in New [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 1:04pm EST
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• Dense Fog: Careful Out There!"In ...

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  Dense Fog: Careful Out There!
  "In these days of truly dangerous dreams I think I've had a few...
  down'side the water by the French Quaters in New Orleans.
  Yes! Yes! I'll call that City's Name. I'll pray to her Patron Saint
  --I'll do whateva it takes to" [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• Swallows return to ...

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  Swallows return to Vacherie
  ~Millions of tree swallows ‘splash’ down in a cane field off River Road near Vacherie.
  
  ASI Lloyds is not renewing some insurance policies in Louisiana
  ~Kimberly Quillen
  
  [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 9:30am EST
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• New Orleans Saints ...

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  New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees to reign as Bacchus during 2010 Carnival
  ~Michelle Krupa [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 4:48pm EST
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• [nt]

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  Where are the locations of some Katrina hurricane memorials? ~Nat. Disaster Response Teams
  ~This touching memorial at 6442 Marshall Foch is all that remains of a home destroyed by federal levee failures in [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 10:00am EST
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• Corps of Engineers makes an American ...

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  Corps of Engineers makes an American "Impenetrable Underground Wall" the Laughing Stock of the World
  ~Ann Wright, Col. US Army Ret.
  
  Divert blame on shoaling near Pilottown: an editorial
  
  Nearly $2 million sent to Louisiana for Water Cleanup
  ~The Lens
  
  Jindal highlights [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 7:00am EST
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• New Orleans a test case for ...

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  New Orleans a test case for global warming?~Tom Darden
  ~Tom Darden is executive director of the Make It Right Foundation, the organization founded by actor Brad Pitt to build 150 affordable, green, high-design homes in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, a neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
  Two years' [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 3:59pm EST
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• Seabrook surge gate's potential flooding effects ...

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  Seabrook surge gate's potential flooding effects discussed as Corps threatens to bust dredging budget~Mark Schleifstein
  
  Cost to maintain outfall canal pumps could fall on city
  ~Maya Rodriguez
  
  ~Fix the Pumps has the most detailed and critical series of Engineering Explanations on these Pumps issues --and' [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• It’s time to consider forested levees ...

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  It’s time to consider forested levees ~LaCoastPost
  
  Corps of Engineers: It’s Your Bill, Not Ours
  ~David Winkler-Schmit
  ~Editilla Co'tellas~ Well, I also watched the entire Council Committee Live Stream meeting with the Corps Colonel and I have to say: we're fucked. Yep, good and truly corn'boned.[...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 4:42pm EST
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• Fix the PumpsUpdate - 12-8-09~ ...

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  Fix the Pumps
  Update - 12-8-09~ The Corps' appearance has been moved to Wednesday, December 9th, at 2 PM CST as part of a joint Recovery/Public Works City Council Committee meeting.
  The Corps is the only item on the agenda here.
  The meeting will be streamed on the' [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 9:25am EST
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• Leslie Jacobs may step out as ...

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  Leslie Jacobs may step out as Landrieu's late entry throws a curve ball into mayor's race
  ~"Advisers" "privately" (??) said Jacobs, who reportedly met with Landrieu before she got into the race last month to gauge his intentions, was surprised by his eleventh-hour decision
  --and may take her name [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• Dark ...

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  Dark Christmas~expoobident [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 4:07pm EST
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• Landrieu to run for mayor-ambulance ...

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  Landrieu to run for mayor
  -ambulance return Tiger's House
  ~Clancy Dubos
  ~This just in~A spokesman for insurance executive
  Leslie Jacobs also sent out a statement during the press conference saying Jacobs will qualify tomorrow, despite rumors that a Landrieu candidacy may cause her to drop out.[...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 6:30am EST
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• We Are ...

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  We Are Contenders.
  We Are New Orleans.
  We Are America.
  ~Melissa Smith [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 4:49pm EST
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• Who Dat Say!? 12-0 Babies!!!~Canal ...

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  Who Dat Say!? 12-0 Babies!!!
  ~Canal Street Chronicles
  ~Twitter~ jeffduncantp Mike McKenzie is injured. Don't know what it is but he's on the sideline with a stocking hat on. It's Jenkins, McAlister & Prioleau at CB. lholder_cbs_nba If the Saints aren't a [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• WHO'DAT? WHO'DAT? WHO'DAT SAY THEY GONNA BEAT THEM SAINTS??? 12-0!

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  New Orleans Saints beat the Washington Redskins 33-30 in overtime!!!! [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 3:54pm EST
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• T-P/nola.com Hacks Dr. Robert Bea's Editorial ...

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  T-P/nola.com Hacks Dr. Robert Bea's Editorial Response!
  ~Editilla Explodellas~This is why it is such a bad thing that Optimal Process Partners works for the Corps, and designs and places their Flash Adverts in this outlet (indeed placed right here on this page with this Letter to' [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 7:30am EST
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• Private landowners can ...

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  Private landowners can restore wetlands on their property
  ~Daily Comet
  
  Five Questions - What Perry, Murray, Georges and Jacobs have to say ~YatPundit
  
  Plaquemines Parish festival celebrates orange growers' defeat of pest threats
  ~The festival is at the peak of' [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 8:30am EST
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• Funding N.O. Health Centers Must be ...

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  Funding N.O. Health Centers Must be a National Priority
  ~Rep. Edolphus Towns
  
  Video: Soros on Human Rights versus Economic Rights
  ~The Lens
  
  The Authorized Biography of Edwin Edwards To Be [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 5:20pm EST
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• CA Republican Issa tries to get ...

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  CA Republican Issa tries to get 'Tough Love' on Louisiana Hurricane(s) Survivors: wants us to Increase Our Taxes
  ~Jonathan Tilove
  ~"Is everyone so poor in Louisiana that the state cannot do more for you?" Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked the panel. "Are you going to be permanent ward of" [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• The Corps of Engineers is not ...

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  The Corps of Engineers is not a "scapegoat"~Bob Bea
  ~In their Point of View “Ruling scapegoats corps for disaster” (The Times-Picayune, November 25, 2009), Rob Young and Andrew Coburn discuss the recent ruling by the Federal District Court in Robinson v. United States that the U.S. Army Corps of [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:35am EST
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• Coburn offers amendment to remove Gulf ...

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  Coburn offers amendment to remove Gulf Coast money from healthcare bill~Tony Romm
  ~A $100-million earmark for Gulf Coast recovery in the healthcare bill believed to have swayed Sen. Mary Landrieu's (D-La.) early support may soon be no more. An amendment introduced Wednesday by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) would strip' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• Corps ruling won't lead to greater ...

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  Corps ruling won't lead to greater liability~Joseph Bruno
  ~Rob Young and Andrew Coburn irresponsibly suggest that Judge Duval's ruling that the Corps of Engineers' gross neglect in the operation and maintenance of the MR-GO caused the flooding in St. Bernard and the Lower Ninth Ward "will open the door'" [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• We've Lost One ...

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  We've Lost One of Our Best and Brightest: Pam Dashiell' [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 5:37pm EST
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• Baby I'm A Saints Fan!That's ...

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  Baby I'm A Saints Fan!
  That's why I say WHO'DAT?
  When the Patriots took the field, Saints fans responded with mostly boos ... at 99 decibels.
  And when the Saints came roaring out of the tunnel to start the game, the fans roared right back: at 105 decibels.
  And' [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 8:30am EST
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• "Be special, Finish ...

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  "Be special, Finish strong
  Smell greatness!"~Jeff Duncan
  
  I Love My New Orleans Saints ~NOLAFemmes
  
  Black & Gold Mania in Bars
  ~Alejondro De Los Rios
  
  Leslie Jacobs, School Reformer For New Orleans Mayor
  ~Christopher Tidmore
  ~"I don’t only support" [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• Nola.com Mud-wrestles with ...

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  Nola.com Mud-wrestles with Financial Conflict of Interest in Corps' Advertorial Advertising
  ~DIXCLAIMER! WARNING! BAT SIGNAL!
  Scream-shot of Corps Advertisement today's Corps Editorial
  ~Editilla Theorellas~Who'dat Crying Alligator Tears?
  Other than giving these criminal sympathizers at nola.com more chances to run their Corps Flash' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:30am EST
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• NoLA Rising Teams ...

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  NoLA Rising Teams With Tipitina's and the US Marine Corps for Toys for Tots IYTI Art Exchange [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:13pm EST
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• What's In Your Levee???Boh Brothers ...

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  What's In Your Levee???
  Boh Brothers admits 'filling' with Construction Garbage, blames Corps for accepting it
  ~Figuring out just exactly how all the debris got into that 2,000-foot (7 football fields long) stretch of levee more than five (less than 10) years ago remains something of a mystery.
  ~~"We'" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 7:00am EST
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• Will Harry Shearer run for Mayor ...

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  Will Harry Shearer run for Mayor of New Orleans or not?
  ~Editilla Politellas~ Who to get behind--not in front!
  
  "Reality Stars": Sign Us Up... Before We Kill Again
  ~Harry Shearer
  
  Who, and what, is Katrina the Clown?~New Orleans Levee
  [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:34pm EST
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• Fishermen asked to ...

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  Fishermen asked to watch for predatory tiger shrimp
  ~Amy Wold
  ~These large, non-native shrimp occasionally appear off the Louisiana coast, but so far they don’t seem to have established themselves. Instead, the only confirmed tiger shrimp catches this year have been adults, said Marty Bourgeois, [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:00am EST
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• Editilla's Who'dat Thanksgiving

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  Editilla's Who'dat Thanksgiving
  
  Thanks Ms Susan and Ms Georgianne fo'da Who'dat!
  
  Da'Glory, Da'Dirty, Da'Coast
  ~There comes a time every few years when a player gets you excited . . . really excited. Few players have the crowd pumping ferocity as' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 7:00am EST
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• Rut'Row Astro!

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  If in Politics You May Have Paid "Volunteers", can they then be Fired for Breach of Ethics?
  Please see comments in post linked above.
  
  How much is left in the till?
  ~Fix the Pumps
  
  U.S. to invest in reviving Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone'
  [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:00am EST
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• Why Obama Needs ...

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  Why Obama Needs to Weigh In With the Corps of Engineers
  ~Harry Shearer [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:28pm EST
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• Preliminary Thoughts on Leslie Jacobs for ...

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  Preliminary Thoughts on Leslie Jacobs for Mayor of New Orleans
  ~Huck UpChuck
  ~"When questioned about her positions on some of the hot button social issues of the day, such as the pro-life/pro-choice and gay marriage debates, she seemed reluctant to reveal herself and actually punted altogether on the gay" [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:30am EST
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• The Corps' invented crisis~Fix the ...

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  The Corps' invented crisis
  ~Fix the Pumps
  The Corps arguments against Option 2 boil down to three contentions:
  1) They are not authorized by Congress to build Option 2.
  2) They haven't been given enough money to do so, according to their own estimates.
  3) They don't have enough' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:17pm EST
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• Our House! Perfect 10'eaux fo'da Baby's Saints!

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  Every game a home game for Our New Orleans Saints~Jeff Duncan
  
  New Orleans Saints 38 @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7: Who Dat Say!?
  ~Canal Street Cronicles
  ~Twitter~
  usama_young28 Who dat! Thanks for the support yall. U kno me. Gotta ice up and [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:30am EST
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