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Ariella Cohen | 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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Ariella Cohen | 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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Next American City | Mar 10th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
In the current issue, Ariella Cohen explains how the preferred catchphrase of developers came to be. To read, click
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Ariella Cohen | 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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Ariella Cohen | 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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Ariella Cohen | 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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Ariella Cohen | 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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Ariella Cohen | 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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Ariella Cohen | Aug 26th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Houston, New Orleans |
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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Diana Lind | Aug 5th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
What’s New Orleans like these days? It depends on who you ask.I went down to New Orleans for the Next Urban Summit expecting to see a city in tatters. Instead, I found that NOLA looks better than I’d ever seen it before. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough.
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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…)
