OK, so it’s in the single digits here this morning, so I have to think of warmer climes. Oops, the strawberries and citrus in Florida are threatened by a freeze and New Orleans is in the 30s.
However, there are a number of interesting stories about New Orleans of late:
Zatarain’s, the New Orleans-area food producer, is petitioning to have Mardi Gras made a national holiday. Read (and sign) here: http://blog.nola.com/cest-la-nola/2009/02/zatarains_spearheading_petitio.html
An observant blogger (not me) discovered that if you search for “New Orleans” in Google, you can come up with a timeline of New Orleans history, with links from specific dates to open source content, a veritable “New Orleans History 2.0″ (to use her words). For the blog and link to the timeline see: http://blog.nola.com/cest-la-nola/2009/02/history_of_new_orleans_20.html
The NOPD is at it again. An autopsy shows that a man killed by police on New Year’s Day was shot in the back of the body nine times: http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/man_shot_by_police_hit_nine_ti.html
And in spite of such news, Mayor Nagin and the city council have reinstituted “Disney-like” sanitation services for the French Quarter. It’s good to see where their priorities are. Which raises some interesting questions: do tourists vote? Does the rest of the city get dumpsters? See: http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/deluxe_quarter_cleanup_resumes.html
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