An Unhappy Anniversary: NOLA Four Years After the Katrina Levee Breaches

• First of all, speaking of anniversaries, Rippa wonders why this country marks the anniversary of 9/11, but not of the devastation that Katrina began in the Gulf region,
• And Ms Lady Deborah notes the same thing, saying, We cannot forget what happened during Katrina! Never!
• NOLA’s own Nordette Adams lets the rest of us know that We’re Still Here (full BlogHer post), and
• That Black Girl lets us know that the amazing Trouble the Water is now available on DVD (see my post about the doc here);
• Mark Anthony Neal’s lecture expands “Trouble the Water” to reflect on post-Katrina NOLA and citizenship;
• New America Media chronicles, among other things, results from the (extremely extensive) Brookings Institution and Greater New Orleans Community Data Center annual New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition;
• The Electronic Village cites several points from the same study,
• Which could be read while exploring CNN’s wonderful interactive map;
• Chronic mental illness remains after the waters have gone,
• And The Root notes that “Charity was the go-to hospital for the city’s poor and now, when they need it most, it’s gone”;
• Sometimes, photographs speak louder than words;
• Ben Greenberg at Hungry Blues has an extensive post about post-Katrina Mississippi;
• Iraq may be being rebuilt faster than NOLA;
• Low income renters face hurdles,
• A lawsuit is filed to halt the discriminatory nature of the grant formula of one rebuilding effort, the Road Home Program,
• And the city’s homeless squat in storm-damaged and empty dwellings—
• While others tout the “greening” of NOLA;
• In NOLA neighborhoods, people needing (and wanting to see) people;
• Meanwhile the NOLA Saints go marching along;
• For NOLA schoolchildren, the “spork” becomes the symbol for the whitewashing of their food culture and continuing inadequacy of educational policy;
• An expert who sounded a warning gets the axe;
• President Obama takes stock and promises to make a NOLA visit soon,
• Carville, though, is “slightly miffed” at the President,
• And I am still thinking Katrina will be his Katrina.