June 2011 Archive

City announces opening of twelve additional pools
NEW ORLEANS, LA — Today, June 6, 2011, the City will open twelve pools across New Orleans, an increase from only eight pools last year.
In spite of two disasters, couple remains ‘jazzed’ about business
New Orleans has proven time personal loans with low monthly payments and again that you can’t keep a good man or woman down. Nowhere is that more evident than in ...
Flood sediment helps some coastal areas, but misses others
By Susan payday loans for bad bad credit Buchanan Contributing Writer The Louisiana coast needs every bucket of river sediment it can get to rebuild marshland that evaporated in the last 70 ...
OPSB blames co-defendant as teachers seek compensation for 2006 mass firings
By Jessica Williams http://thelensnola.org One defendant — the Orleans Parish School Board — tried repeatedly to blame a co- defendant – the state Department of Education — as school board employees who ...
Petition calls for the removal of Serpas
Just two weeks after a coalition of residents and community activists holiday money online led by Community United for Change called for the termination or resignation of NOPD Superintendent Ronal ...
Phenomenal Oprah spoke across barriers
By Rev. Jesse Jackson The Louisiana Weekly Guest Columnist May 25 will be remembered as a bittersweet day across America. On that day, after a quarter century of unparalleled excellence and ...
Remembering the real sisters in certain areas of the country
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Satoshi Kanazawa tried to get on the bandwagon with the bigots, the chauvinists, the idiots, who are always stating obvious untruths about somebody in ...
Rev. Lowery says Black leaders must understand Pres. Obama’s plight
Predicts he will be ‘bolder’ for Blacks in second term By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) — The Rev. Joseph Lowery, an iconic Godfather in the civil rights community, says Black leaders must ...
River traffic resumes after barge accident but threats remain
By Susan Buchanan The Louisiana Weekly Traffic on the lower Mississippi River restarted last Tuesday after a four-day closure caused by a Baton Rouge barge collision.
Rotary International in the Big Easy
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux The Louisiana Weekly Contributing Columnist A feature article in Time magazine on Monday, January 22, 1951 startled the world, especially the 7,200 businessmen’s groups called Ro­tary. The Vatican’s ...

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