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  New York Times Covers NOLA Charity Hospital Months After NAC

  Diana Lind | Wed, Nov 26th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, diana lind, next american city, new york times, brentin mock, charity hospital | 1

  Next American City’s Brentin Mock wrote about the controversy surrounding New Orleans Charity Hospital for our Summer 2008 issue (No. 19) months ago — now the story is making national news with a little help from the Times.

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• Columnists

  The New Orleans Biennial

  Ariella Cohen | Mon, Nov 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, ariella cohen, ariella cohen, mel chin, kirsha kaechele, peter nadin, dan cameron, biennale, wangeshi mutu, prospect one | 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.

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• The Daily Report

  Triple Canopy Nails NOLA Mania

  Nick Lalla | Wed, Nov 12th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, hurricane katrina, nick lalla, ray nagin, triple canopy, brian rosa, disaster tourism, gray line, september 11th, mardi gras | 2

  Stop the presses! The (um) September issue of online magazine Triple Canopy is so good...it’s worth ignoring for two months and then rhapsodizing about, a few months too late.

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• The Daily Report

  The Fallacy of Freeways

  Holly Otterbein | Wed, Oct 29th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New Orleans | Tags: congress for new urbanism, freeways | 8

  Freeways, which were erected when gasoline was inexpensive in the mid-20th century, now lack purpose and cause blight. The Congress for the New Urbanism has named North America’s 10 worst freeways in order to encourage their removal. Is the one you schlep to work on on the list?

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• Web Exclusives

  Filmmakers Tia Lessin & Carl Deal “Trouble the Water”

  Hamida Kinge | Thu, Oct 2nd, 2008 | Category: Interviews | City: New Orleans | Tags: | 0

  Next American City interviews Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about their groundbreaking film Trouble the Water, currently playing in theaters.

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• The Daily Report

  A First Person View of Hurricane Gustav

  Ariella Cohen | Mon, Sep 8th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, ariella cohen, ariella cohen, ray nagin, first person, hurricane gustav | 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.

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• The Daily Report

  Gambling Can Be Addictive, For City Governments

  Ariella Cohen | Tue, Aug 26th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, ariella cohen, ariella cohen, racetrack, gambling, ray nagin, harrah's | 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. 

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