When Tropical Storm Lee pummeled the Gulf coast with wind and rain last week, it left more than local floods and wind damage in its wake. Residents from Florida to Louisiana report the slow-moving gale blew in oily residues, thick tar mats and tar balls, confirming fears that the crude from BP’s historic blowout is far from gone.
I never was one to rock the boat. I'm a sailor, for goodness sakes. I would take off from the harbor at daybreak sometimes an' barely beat sundown coming in. I've sailed like that, since i was seven, for 50 years.
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or a climatologist to realize this has been a killer weather year. Snowmaggedons in the east; deadly super cell tornados pummeling towns across the Midwest and South; record spring floods throughout the Midwest and Gulf; droughts and deadly fires racing through tinder-dry towns in Texas. Now we're on track to have a possible record-breaking number of hurricanes; three cyclones now spinning in the Atlantic and Gulf could threaten our rain-soaked coasts and waterways.
In the Gulf, another maelstrom has hit. But the tropical storm Mother Nature has brewed is not the top concern on some resident’s minds. They're more worried about the threat of fresh oil sighted near BP’s Macondo well 40 miles offshore.
So much is happening so quickly, that I am finding it hard to keep up in my writings. Please bear with me.
The subject of this blog is concerning the D.C. meetings that were held on August 25 with a delegation of citizens leaders from the Gulf of Mexico and federal governemental entities.
"Deficiency Letter on Interim Payment/Final Payment Claim". The wording is ominous, but John Gooding, who is visibly ill, is not surprised. He's received them before and has a feeling he'll be receiving more. The letter further stated that John was missing documentation necessary to prove he has been "diagnosed with a physical injury/death that resulted from the Spill". Illness claims are processed under the general GCCF category of physical injury/death cla
The Norwood Thompson playground is a gathering place for all ages in Gert Town. It is a place of fellowship for residents of this New Orleans neighborhood, and provides a break for working mothers to spend time with their children.
But it is also destined and designed as an accident waiting to happen. As you will hear and see from the children and adults who use it, the playground is an environmental health hazard.
Political power has shifted to whites, but blacks have not given up their struggle for a voice -- and justice. Originally published on The Root. As this weekend’s storm has reminded us, hurricanes can be a threat to U.S. cities on the East Coast as well the Gulf. But the vast changes that have taken place in New Orleans since Katrina have had little to do with weather, and everything to do with political struggles.
My goal over the next couple of days before setting off to Biloxi, MS, for the GCERT and Gulf Future meetings, is to spend every waking moment hugging on my babies. But, I did want to take a minute, as they sleep, to tell you a little about the last few days in D.C. and N.Y. and how proud I am to have been a part of it.
I never was one to rock the boat. I'm a sailor, for goodness sakes. I would take off from the harbor at daybreak sometimes an' barely beat sundown coming in. I've sailed like that, since i was seven, for 50 years.
ominous, but John Gooding, who is visibly ill, is not surprised. He's received them before and has a feeling he'll be receiving more. The letter further stated that John was missing documentation necessary to prove he has been "diagnosed with a physical injury/death that resulted from the Spill". Illness claims are processed under the general GCCF category of physical injury/death cla 
The Norwood Thompson playground is a gathering place for all ages in Gert Town. It is a place of fellowship for residents of this New Orleans neighborhood, and provides a break for working mothers to spend time with their children. 
the last few days in D.C. and N.Y. and how proud I am to have been a part of it.