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Aug 31st, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans |
The Lens, a New Orleans-based investigative online magazine, has put together one of the most complete accountings of the Big Easy’s efforts to revitalize its own properties and improve the lives of residents, employees and visitors. Here, read an excerpt from this exclusive report. (
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Aug 31st, 2010 | Topic: Governance | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans |
In a feature article from Issue 28, Ariella Cohen looks into the sweeping changes happening in the New Orleans public school system, and the parents and teachers trying to fix a broken system. (
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Jan 15th, 2010 | Topic: Governance | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans |
Ariella Cohen remembers a reporting trip to Haiti, during which an international aid consultant expressed her fears of an earthquake. Plus, a republished feature article from Issue 21 about the hurricane-ravaged cities of New Orleans and Gonaives, which Cohen wrote after her visit. (
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Aug 28th, 2009 | Topic: Governance | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans |
NAC correspondents Ariella Cohen and Brentin Mock send a report from New Orleans, where residents and officials are still trying to get the help they were promised by the federal government—with limited results. (
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Jun 22nd, 2009 | Topic: | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans |
Dan Baum’s blog
post on the New York Times website on Friday illustrates the problems of narrating a city from a distance. (
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Feb 24th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans |
A visual dispatch from New Orleans, where Mardi Gras is in full swing. (
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Jan 21st, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans |
The credit crisis is just the latest tangle to snarl the rebuilding process in New Orleans’ neediest neighborhoods. (
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Jan 1st, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Chicago, Miami, New York, Philadelphia |
Hoping to staunch the financial crisis’s toll on city dwellers, cities are creating offices of financial empowerment. Aimed at cities’ low- and moderate-income constituents, these programs attempt to break the cycle of debt and aid social mobility, even in these tough times. (
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Nov 17th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans, New York |
New Orleans is a hard city for good ideas. It’s not that there is a lack of them, just the opposite. The city is full of good ideas — ideas that are never implemented. It’s a city full of displaced dreamers, talented people who come from all over to a place where success as it is defined elsewhere is overshadowed by indigenous social markers most often involving whiskey and parades. (
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Sep 8th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans |
When New Orleans’ mayor Ray Nagin predicted that Hurricane Gustav was going to be the “mother of all hurricanes,” he urged the city’s residents to get out of town or make one of the biggest mistakes of their lives. Writer Ariella Cohen stayed — and here’s what happened. (
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The Lens, a New Orleans-based investigative online magazine, has put together one of the most complete accountings of the Big Easy’s efforts to revitalize its own properties and improve the lives of residents, employees and visitors. Here, read an excerpt from this exclusive report. (keep reading…)
In a feature article from Issue 28, Ariella Cohen looks into the sweeping changes happening in the New Orleans public school system, and the parents and teachers trying to fix a broken system. (keep reading…)
Ariella Cohen remembers a reporting trip to Haiti, during which an international aid consultant expressed her fears of an earthquake. Plus, a republished feature article from Issue 21 about the hurricane-ravaged cities of New Orleans and Gonaives, which Cohen wrote after her visit. (keep reading…)
