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Next American Vanguard 2010

Author: Ariella Cohen

  • Worst Fears Realized

    Jan 15th, 2010 | Topic: Governance | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans | 8

    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…)

  • Katrina: Four Years and One Inauguration Later

    Aug 28th, 2009 | Topic: Governance | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans | 0

    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.   (keep reading…)

  • A Simple Hat and a Complicated Story: The Risk of Unreliable Storytelling in a Recovering City

    Jun 22nd, 2009 | Topic: | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans | 5

    Dan Baum’s blog post on the New York Times website on Friday illustrates the problems of narrating a city from a distance.   (keep reading…)

  • City on a Bender

    Feb 24th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans | 1

    A visual dispatch from New Orleans, where Mardi Gras is in full swing.   (keep reading…)

  • New Orleans Affordable Housing: A Bleak Forecast

    Jan 21st, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans | 3

    The credit crisis is just the latest tangle to snarl the rebuilding process in New Orleans’ neediest neighborhoods.   (keep reading…)

  • Cities Break Out the Piggy Bank

    Jan 1st, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Chicago, Miami, New York, Philadelphia | 0

    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.   (keep reading…)

  • The New Orleans Biennial

    Nov 17th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans, New York | 1

    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.   (keep reading…)

  • A First Person View of Hurricane Gustav

    Sep 8th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans | 0

    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.   (keep reading…)

  • Gambling Can Be Addictive, For City Governments

    Aug 26th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Houston, New Orleans | 0

    What is the role of gambling in New Orleans future: a) just another fun pastime; b) a way for the city to recover; c) not the kind of thing the city should invest in if it wants to have a serious economic engine; or d) all of the above. Ariella Cohen spends a day at the tracks and finds out.   (keep reading…)
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