Michael Brown acknowledges some mistakes he made in responding to Katrina, but also levying criticisms against Blanco and Nagin in New Orleans. Sort of repulsive, although the criticisms he makes of Blanco and Nagin do[…]
Author: Julia Goldberg
work for the government
because if you do, apparently, there’s no end to the benefits. First, city judge Fran Gallegos gets three months PAID leave while investigations go on about apparent malfeasance in her court. I assume that, even[…]
10 things about Monday
1. We are putting out the paper but also proofing Restaurant Guide. RG makes me nutso fasto. I have some kind of weird Karma (am now using words like Karma, please note) that has put[…]
rita
This morning I walked through the Plaza and ended up in a human traffic jam of Texans buying fajitas and wearing, really, sombreros they seemed to have just purchased (where? Does someone downtown sell sombreros?)[…]
the media and new orleans
David Carr of The Times has written the article I’ve been hoping to read about the media’s coverage of New Orleans as it pertained to all the horrific rumors of violence, with some explanations of[…]