My money's on the passage of health care reform. The current system is unsustainable. Obama is right: If not now, when? If not us, who? I think the US House of Representatives will pass the Senate...
What? A superbowl championship isn't love enough? I know the damn game is a business; but I do think Darren Sharper should keep his whining to himself. It's one thing to go where the money is, like...
One of the hot things in what is called the "service movement" on college campuses these days is the idea of the "social entrepreneur." What is the social entrepreneur? In short, he is the person who comes up...
You know a phenomenon has gone mainstream when it’s written up in Vanity Fair, the coffee-table bible of trends and tastes from high to low. And so it goes with “sissy rap,” which was the subject of an award-winning Gambit...
“I hope this is the end of it,” said New Orleans Coroner Dr. Frank Minyard today when he declared Jannie Burgess’s death unclassified and its cause undetermined. Burgess died at Memorial Medical Center in the days following Hurricane Katrina when...
Speaking of Google, New Orleans might have an opportunity to participate in a trial of the search provider’s/Internet overlord’s anticipated high-speed fiber-optic broadband Internet connection. Google has ambitions of speeds of 1Gb per second in open-access networks, and if city...
Officials to meet with La. Recovery Authority on levee issues~Bret McCormick~Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy and Rapides Parish Police Jury President Richard Billings will appear before the LRA's board of directors at the State Capitol, along with officials from...
On their way to who knows where, and interrupting morning commuters, throngs of revelers dressed in green marched down South Peters and Decatur streets.
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Levee request fits the mission of the LRA~Alexandria Town TalkClimate Change and the Resilience of New Orleans: the Adaptation of Deltaic Urban Form~Armando Carbonell, Douglas J. Meffert~This paper cuts across all five of the URS research clusters summarized in the...
NEW ORLEANS — It offers faster Internet service and a chance to be the digital hub of the country. That’s why cities across America are competing hard for Google’s new fiber optic network that promises to be 100 times faster...
Those of us who have become used to the local comings and goings of the crews for Tremé might be surprised to know that even New Orleans can’t play New Orleans on film all the time. Courtesy of the blog...
Among the performers headed to Austin’s South By Southwest conference is a contingent of New Orleans bounce rappers. Former Gambit columnist Alison Fensterstock organized a benefit show at the Saint (961 St. Mary St.) tonight (10 p.m. Wednesday) to support...
I have had a few questions about where we live...so I thought I would fill ya'll in on life in our campground.We live in a beautiful area of the smokey mountains....kind of down in a valley in the city of...
The Photo Review, a highly acclaimed critical journal of photography, is sponsoring its 26th annual photography competition, and will reproduce accepted entries in its 2010 competition issue and on its website. Also, the prize-winning photographers will be chosen for an...
The Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, LA is holding its fourth Southern Open, a juried exhibition featuring artists from the 5 southern states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.Taking place in the Main gallery at the AcA,...
On one hand I am really glad Razzoo exists. As it concentrates all types of folks I’d rather not be drinking with in one spot in the Quarter. So rather than encountering these people randomly, I can decrease my chances...
Quick QuestionFrom Album3With all the talk of "radicals" and "loyalty" and whatnot, something that stuck in my head today seems to cry out for a definitive answer: Who gets to decide just who IS an "enemy combatant" anyway? I think...
With the help of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Google Maps now offers biking directions on its maps. The mapping and directions functions follow the same process one would enter for walking or driving — but now users can choose biking from...
Questionland question of the day
What’s the correct way to preserve a Zulu (BIG SHOT, at that!) coconut, that still has the “milk” in it?
Help out Thothnola before his coconut rots away!...
Americans loathe Congress, but they still like President Barack Obama according to a recent Associated Press poll. A mere 22 percent support Congress while public approval for Obama’s job performance checks in at 53 percent even though Karl Rove casts...
The NOPA gallery will be closed on Sat. March 13 because of the St. Patrick's Day parade and festivities on Magazine Street. Check out this guide to the big day to see what there is to do....
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Defend New Orleans is teaming up with Park the Van Records and some special friends for a free/no rsvp/no wristband required party during SXSW. Band details below, invite your friends! FRIDAY, March 19thKing Rey 5:15 pm Generationals 4:30 pmDavid Vandervelde 3:45 pmFloating Action 3:00 pmGiant Cloud...
Cpl. Jason L. Dunham
22 years old from Scio, New York
Rifle Squad Leader, 4th Platoon, Company K, Third Battalion, Seventh Marines (Reinforced), Regimental Combat Team 7, FIRST Marine Division (Reinforced)
April 22, 2004
For The President of the United States of America, in...
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