The soldiers' presence makes me feel that we are moving slowly, perhaps in the wrong direction.

It's termite season in New Orleans. They swarm nightly, waiting for darkness to inflict their gentle terror.

My traveling partner and co-pilot, Shanna, commented that we traveled through all of the seasons, freezing in the mountains of North Carolina, experiencing a pleasant cool in Tennessee, and then heating up for the last jag of a journey without air-conditioning through Mississippi and Louisiana.

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Unfortunately, neither mayoral candidate fits into the latter category for me.

48.5% of the damaged areas had a majority African American population, compared to 26.4% in the undamaged areas.

I am tired of hearing people like Landrieu deny that it’s true, or, in the inverse, watching Nagin manipulate racial politics to get votes.

San Francisco was a “new metropolis” at the time the earthquake hit, while New Orleans has been in a state of economic decline for centuries. Historians fear this may prevent investors from contributing to the rebuilding.

HANO has only completed fifty percent of the soil samples necessary to place temporary trailers in public housing developments.

St. Augustine Church was re-opened yesterday after a brief battle with the archdiocese.

While people far away can imagine that progress is being made, New Orleanians are living in the proof that it isn’t.

Mayoral candidates Virginia Boulet and Peggy Wilson are both campaigning on the platform that New Orleans needs to turn toward the private sector for help rather than relying on the government or the tourist industry.

Cyrille Neville, a New Orleans musician, has been one of the most outspoken and oft-quoted critics of the New Orleans music scene. He thinks that the city takes its musicians for granted and treats them accordingly.

In the wake of Katrina, the long-deficient New Orleans public school system is crying out for help, but not getting an answer.

For anyone who hasn't been to New Orleans since Katrina, beneath every interstate overpass lays a patchwork of dusty cars. Each one is a petri dish. An estimated 25-30,000 vehicles still contaminate the city and they're not going anywhere fast.

Katrina made New Orleans an excellent foil to highlight the active role of journalists in the event being reported--includes bonus non-objective report by local writer Kerry Lee Mansell