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To supplement one portion of Susan\'s amazing post, please check out the following link about the ICE raid on Lee Circle.\r\n\r\nAbraham Salcedo worked on the same project as Laureve and me. He and several other Fordham…

ICE Raid

In an effort to make sense of the 40-something posts we\'ve accrued over the past nine days, I\'ve created a little synopsis of everyone\'s posts, with a link to the original. Nothing is a substitute for the original…

Review and debrief

I too worked on Second Wind, the small business initiative. I spent all week talking to business owners, hearing their stories, encouraging them to stand together as a community in a time of need. Toward the end of the…

Give them what…

When I returned from New Orleans, I was a bag of mixed emotions. \"I can\'t believe I\'m leaving, I can\'t believe I\'ve been gone a whole week, and I can\'t believe it\'s over.\"\r\n\r\nBut that\'s the thing. It\'s not…

Returning Home, and…

I almost left New Orleans without having visited the lower Ninth Ward, where the devastation of Hurricane Katrina reaches truly cataclysmic proportions. Fully immersed as I was in the process of interpreting docket…

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The slick, freshly-painted expanse of the IslandView casino hotel looms over its surrounding neighborhood in Gulfport, Mississippi. Only a few yards away, beyond the vast parking lot, dilapidated houses still mark their…

Housing on the…

I was born in New Orleans, just after Hurricane Betsy. I remember spending lots of summers with my cousins at my grandmother\'s home in Belle Chasse, and my Aunt\'s home, just down the street. We tried to come visit for…

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The FBI set up a FBI taxk force hot line to report anyone or companies that were committing FRAUD. I report the fraud to the hot line of that fact that my company, Harrah\'s Entertainment were denying me donations that…

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Hurricane Katrina Trip 2005\r\n By Daisy & Steve Hilts\r\n\r\n\r\nAugust 28th- The beginning.\r\nKatrina was an extraordinarily powerful and deadly hurricane that carved a wide swath of catastrophic damage and…

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Comment card written in response to an exhibit by artist Maxx Sizeler at 2426 Bradish Place on May 19,2007. \r\n \r\nComplete text on card: \"Robert\'s Marketplace, St. Claude and Elysian Fields by Amy Wilson\r\nIt was…

Robert\'s…