Travel Louisiana: Travel to the LSU Rural Life Museum
Region: LouisianaThe Rural Life Museum and Windrush Gardens is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Rural Life Fall Fair takes place at the Rural Life Museum and Wind rush Gardens in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on October 30Th from 8:30 am to 5 pm. There are many activities for children to enjoy like pumpkin decorating, trick-or-treating, story telling and cake walks. This old fashioned country fair will be held on the grounds of the... more
Views: 746Two NOPD Officers Charged in Post-Katrina Death
Region: Louisiana
A federal grand jury indicted two New Orleans police officers today for lying and obstruction of justice in connection with the shooting death of Danny Brumfield Sr., a 45-year-old man shot in the back by police in the days after Katrina. Police said they fired a single blast from a shotgun at Brumfield after he jumped on the hood of their squad car and made a lunging motion with a "shiny object" through the pass... more
Views: 1839The Real Truth About the BP Oil Spill and What is “Gulf of Mexico Syndrome”…(NASA VIDEO)
Region: LouisianaThe Real Truth About BP and What is Happening in the Gulf Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com June 26, 2010 BP is engaged in criminal negligence. It only pretends to clean-up its mess when government officials arrive for photo-ops. BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama. (VIDEO) The Real Truth About the BP Oil... more
Views: 3449How Senator Vitter Battled the EPA Over Formaldehyde’s Link to Cancer
Region: Louisiana
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has pushed the EPA to slow its process of updating its 20-year-old health assessment of formaldehyde. After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of his state's residents said they suffered respiratory problems after being housed in government trailers contaminated with formaldehyde. (Left: A child looks out of a FEMA trailer in Port Sulphur, La. May 2008 photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) When... more
Views: 2745Mitch Landrieu Elected New Orleans Mayor
Region: Louisiana
Mitch Landrieu has been elected Mayor of New Orleans. Who is he? GroundReporter NRothstein describes Mitch's rise to power, starting with his father, Moon Landrieu: In 1960, Moon Landrieu, a young state representative from uptown New Orleans, had a difficult decision to make. The state legislature was about to vote on the future of New Orleans schools and desegregation. Landrieu was no civil rights activist, but had ... more
Views: 1220Who Will Lead New Orleans?
Region: Louisiana
Update: Mitch Landrieu has been elected Mayor of New Orleans. In 1960, Moon Landrieu, a young state representative from uptown New Orleans, had a difficult decision to make. The state legislature was about to vote on the future of New Orleans schools and desegregation. Landrieu was no civil rights activist, but had grown to understand the disparities in living conditions between blacks and whites through long conversa... more
Views: 2905How a New Orleans Police Detective Missed a Key Clue in a Controversial Killing
Region: Louisiana
The New Orleans Police Department’s official 12-page report on the death of Danny Brumfield Sr. comes to this conclusion: The 45-year-old grandfather was to blame for his own demise. Brumfield was among thousands of people gathered near the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Sept. 2, 2005. Inexplicably, the report said, he leaped onto the hood of a police car and made a “stabbing motion” through t... more
Views: 1682District Attorney Leon A. Cannizzaro, Jr. of Louisiana Evaluates Statements on Patient Deaths
Region: LouisianaThe District Attorney of Orleans Parish in Louisiana, Leon A. Cannizzaro, Jr., said yesterday [1] that he is evaluating “statements regarding possible criminal activity in this jurisdiction.” Cannizzaro was referring to statements made in a recent ProPublica/New York Times Magazine article [2] about deaths at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. In the magazine article, two p... more
Views: 2339“They hung with us”: Race and Community in a New Orleans Health Clinic
Region: LouisianaIn broken mirror pieces reads a sign, “Common Ground Health Clinic,” above the door where nearly forty patients a day visit this converted convenience store on an Algiers street within two blocks of the Mississippi river. Up a ramp and inside is a pristine waiting room with twenty-five chairs and along the short hallway is the social workers’ office, then four patient rooms, and an herbalist station t... more
Views: 1831New Evidence Surfaces in Post-Katrina Crimes
Region: LouisianaDonnell Herrington (Credit: Chandra McCormick & Keith Calhoun) Television news reports are casting new light on the violence that flourished in New Orleans in the anarchic days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The reports -- broadcast Thursday by WTAE TV in Pittsburgh and WDSU in New Orleans -- focus on two unsolved crimes: the near-fatal shooting of Donnell Herrington, who... more
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