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29 May 2010, 8:16 pm by John Culhane
To call what happened in New Orleans “Katrina” is really a misnomer, because the hurricane isn’t what caused the widespread and continuing destruction of large sections of the city: the government did so, through the negligence of the Army Corps of Engineers in connection with the building and maintenance of the levee system, and of untold bureaucrats in designing the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (”MR-GO”). [read post]
24 May 2010, 10:00 pm by Scott Wolfe Jr
Well, if you’re from the New Orleans area you likely remember the spat between former Mayor Ray Nagin and the city council about whether convicted felons are considered “responsible bidders” on city contracts. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 12:36 am by David Kopel
” In 1998, Chicago Mayor Daley and New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial filed the vanguard of what would become three dozen municipal lawsuits against the firearms industry. [read post]
14 Mar 2010, 10:47 pm by admin
SETTLEMENTS New Bedford wants rest of PCB settlement money. - Chris Anderson, South Coast Today, March 4, 2010 City officials are pushing for the remaining funds in the New Bedford Harbor trust to be allocated to city projects, arguing that the money should be spent as close as possible to where the damage from the long-running contamination of the harbor occurred. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 3:17 pm by admin
An agreement between the company and the EPA was filed Monday in Kansas City, Kan. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 3:04 am by Omar Ha-Redeye
  Rick Hills recently related his experience of eating in a former slave market, and questions the lack of slavery landmarks in the U.S., Anyone who has read Walter Johnson’s searing account of the New Orleans slave markets can imagine that eating inside a slave market can have the chilling feeling of eating inside, say, a barracks at Dachau… Slavery’s physical landmarks and artifacts seem mostly invisible in th[e] realm of public history… There is… [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 7:16 pm by admin
Prior to 1998, the system had been overwhelmed causing overflows of raw sewage into waterways and streets of New Orleans. [read post]
28 Nov 2009, 7:35 am
Gun runners then purchase these firearms in bulk, and smuggle them north into cities throughout New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts. [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 8:04 am
American Electric Power Co., “siding with a coalition of eight states, New York City, and three land trusts in their lawsuit against several coal-burning utilities for emissions. [read post]
1 Oct 2009, 5:48 pm by admin
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held in State of Connecticut v. [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 6:44 am
Source: New York Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), Search run September 20, 2009. [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 1:34 am
Source: New York Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), Search run July 19, 2009. [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 4:09 pm by rhapsodyinbooks
The Court rejected that argument, saying, “If this statute had imposed on the city of New Orleans precisely the same duties, accompanied by the same privileges, which it has on the corporation which it created, it is believed that no question would have been raised as to its constitutionality. [read post]
14 Dec 2008, 12:54 am
New Orleans City et al, No. 2:08-cv-5030, pending before Judge Lemmon in the Eastern District: docket (pdf), complaint (pdf). [read post]
7 Jun 2008, 10:05 am
.)'I know I am not an American citizen in the eyes of the powers that be.'With these words the story of an historic New Orleans neighborhood comes full circle.It was in this neighborhood that even before the Civil War hommes de couleur libré -- free people of color -- led lives of style and culture. [read post]
11 May 2008, 4:14 am
  Meanwhile, recovery in New Orleans gets one more roadblock. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 3:59 pm
Ramsey granted a motion by the city government of New Orleans for summary judgment in a pending challenge to the city's domestic partnership registry ordinance and the provision of health benefits to domestic partners of city employees. [read post]