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LaCoastPost: taking stock at six months
The end of April 2009 marks twenty six weeks, exactly one half year since LaCoastPost.com first took the plunge into the blogosphere and went online, joining...
Harry Shearer: Obama 100 day window of opportunity closes on Louisiana
Arianna Huffington and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer The national media are obviously making a huge deal of the fact that April 29...
Guest post on gulf hypoxia (GH)
Editor’s note: As regular readers of LaCoastPost may have noted, the dead zone – gulf hypoxia (GH) remains a very serious issue that has grown worse...
NRC report casts doubt on adequacy of levee protection for New Orleans
Construction underway on Pontchartrain levee. Donald Stout / The Times-Picayune An article by Sheila Grissett and Mark Schleifstein in the April 25 Times-Picayune...
How would you invest $242 million on the coast?
NOAA photo, East Timbalier Island project Editor’s Note: This post was written with the mistaken impression on my part that the $242 million described here...
LSU defends cutting van Heerden’s post in hurricane center
Kudos for student journalism! Robert Twilley, associate vice chancellor of research and economic development at LSU, director of the Coastal Systems and Society...
Lethal but legal pollution – awful offal!
Earth Day, 2009 is a great occasion to talk about global issues, not restricted to south Louisiana. This day also coincides with the first 100 days of the Obama...
The importance of coastal symbols, funding and mining the river
Chris Kirkham wrote a piece on April 19 for the Times-Picayune about the uncertainty of future funding for Louisiana coastal protection and restoration, given global,...
EPA declares CO2 a pollutant; now legislation will heat up.
Brett Duke / The Times-Picayune Industry lines the Mississippi River Levee in St. Charles Parish. All day long on Friday April 17 various major media...
Louisiana’s flagship university runs aground on public opinion. Does the state care?
The decision by the administrators of Louisiana State University to purge Professor Ivor van Heerden from its faculty and to effectively eliminate the LSU Hurricane...
