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KATRINA AND NOLA'S RESTAURANTS
AUG 5 OK, it's another Katrina anniversary story, but it's a really good one. It's about how Katrina affected New Orleans' restaurant scene: It started out as a brutal kick in the teeth, but it ended up making the foodie destination even stronger, the New York Times reports here.
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ALFORD HAS THE BUZZ ON THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES
AUG 5 Columnist Jeremy Alford gives us the word on who might run for the Congressional seats that would open up if Charles Boustany and John "Captain Hairdo" Fleming vacate their seats to run for the U.S. Senate.
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IT WAS BROKE, AND CHARTERS BROKE IT SOME MORE
AUG 5 Salon posts this piece on the NOLA charter school lie by Jennifer Berkshire, whom you might know as the blogger behind EduShyster. It's not your cliched post-Katrina anniversary story, that's for sure, but it's better. We might want to think things are better now, but if they're not we need to face it.
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AUG 5 Ever wonder why all those youngsters in the chefing business have so much ink? This post on 225 Baton Rouge magazine might have an answer, with interviews with several capital city chefs about their tattoos.
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AUG 5 New Orleans Magazine posts this look back at the leaders who emerged in NOLA after Katrina, when the recovery began. Some are expected, some not, and there's also a list at the end of this post that reminds us of how so many did so much after the storm.
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GETTING THE SCOOP ON THOSE PUBLIC HOSPITAL DEALS
AUG 5 This is a new-ish blog that's dedicated to discussion about one of Bobby Jindal's more questionable actions (and that's saying something, ain't it?), to wit, the privatization of our public hospitals. There is a lot of information on here, all obviously written from one point of view, but with no identifying information at all as to its source.
Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
The NYT takes a look at NOLA's restaurants, post-Katrina. Also today, a little buzz on some possible Congressional races and an interesting blog about the privatization of our public hospitals.