This indefatigable 53-year-old mom has shown that it is the average citizen—not government—that’s leading the recovery of New Orleans.
Tags: blogger, Common Knowledge, Karen Gadbois, New Orleanian of the Year, New Orleans, NOAH, NOLABlogger, SE Louisiana, Squandered Heritage
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The impact of Katrina on the musicians of New Orleans has been immense, and their needs continue to increase.
Tags: 9th ward, Bethany Bultman, dental care, Fats Domino, health, jazz, Karen Gadbois, mental health, music jazz, New Orleans, New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation, New Orleans Musicians Clinic, occupational outreach, population, poverty, preventative health services, primary care, Rita, roots music, social outreach
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A breaking story about a nonprofit with ties to the Mayor’s Office is potentially damaging to every nonprofit effort that is doing real good here, as well as the credibility of the city and its leadership.
Tags: accusations, City Hall, corruption, housing, Karen Gadbois, Lee Zurich, louisiana, no profit, NOAH, NOLA Planning Archive, Ray Nagin, WWL TV
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One of the amazing things about the period after Katrina was the way that people used the Internet for mobilizing, coordinating, and especially watchdog efforts.
Tags: Alan Guttierrez, Editor B., Geek Dinners, HumidCity, Karen Gadbois, Maitri, Network World, ThinkNOLA
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Well, Bert, it sounds like you don’t live on the Gulf Coast to me. The fact that investigations are...
Bert, It has actually been almost 4 years. time flies when your rebuilding an entire City.
It’s been two years… get over it. Time to take stock of what you have been given. All that aid...
It will be a good work by the engineers if they have restored the wetlands. —- sathyan louisiana...
The problem is not what happened after but what was done before with government and institutions...
Laura, the answer to that is simple: the Gulf Coast is populated with a lot of conservative white...
Well, Laura I must confess that I have never quite understood voting patterns here in the Deep South. In...
Loki, why do you think the majority of the coastal states voted for McCain, given Bush’s sad...
One should never rely on the Corps of Engineers to do anything efficiently. Too bad we’ve come to...
Funny…when we lived in NYC for four years, I knew that we would eventually move back to New...