New Orleans

Life Span Of African-Americans In New Orleans Rivals North Korea's

The average life span for African-Americans living in New Orleans is nearly as low as average life expectancy in North Korea, according to A Portrait Of Louisiana, a new report from The American Human Development Project which examines life in the state four years after Hurricane Katrina.

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Glen Ford at BAR reminds us that the only "change" coming to New Orleans under "our" new President is the erasure of poor black people from the city's future.

Not a single one of 500 planned “Katrina cottages” has been made ready for occupancy. Elderly people squat in abandoned buildings. There are no credible plans to repair or create an infrastructure that could accommodate the poor who still remain, much less the New Orleans diaspora, scattered to the four winds three and a half years ago.

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New Orleans health neglect system post-Katrina. Read below the fold...

Goddamn it, Shearer, you've got it all wrong.
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Naturally. New Orleans is--was--a black, Democratic, city. Three strikes. Reason enough to write them off. (Not that you're next, no no no no.) WaPo: Read below the fold...

Un-fuckin-believable. No, cancel that. Standard operating procedure*. Read it and scream: Read below the fold...

Always remember that the Republicans want to drown government in the bathtub, which is why they can't govern.

And in New Orleans, we can see what happens when Republicans get their way, and drown a whole city.

Republicans didn't protect NOLA before Katrina, they let NOLA drown during Katrina, and even now that they've turned NOLA red by leaving the Ninth Ward to rot, they're still screwing it up. AP: Read below the fold...