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...paper for now, a new New Orleans is taking shape. Some of its canals would be filled in to serve as parks. The red-light district once known as Storyville would be revived as a jazz center near the French Quarter. There would be charter schools instead of slum schools, a streamlined city government and, most important, rebuilt levees. But that "audacious" action plan laid out last week by Mayor Ray Nagin's 17-member Bring New Orleans Back Commission has met with a storm of controversy, not just from residents of the poor Ninth Ward but also from wealthier...
...force members to defend them, eliminating the many mysterious entries that now bristle in the budget. Blunt defends earmarks but has proposed tracking those who request them and how the money is spent. Boehner and Shadegg both say they have never had an earmark directed to their congressional district...
...Middlesex District Attorney Spokeswoman Emily LaGrassa said yesterday that the office had not yet received word of the charges. Catalano confirmed yesterday that there have been no arraignments in this investigation...
...warning for the future. Jeff Michaud East Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. What striking photos you picked! What an amazing year! I don't remember being so affected by a series of magazine pictures since the tumultuous year of 1968. The image shown on the cover, of the New Orleans Garden District aflame, reminded me of a Currier & Ives lithograph. Despite my dislike for the war in Iraq, especially for all the dissembling by politicians that got us into it, I couldn't help feeling a twinge of patriotic pride upon seeing the photo of an Iraqi woman voting. Alexander Wells...
Last Thursday, Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly gave an emotional defense of his decision to ask a district attorney not to release records concerning a drunk-driving accident that killed two Massachusetts girls in the fall. His defense, however, does not account for his remarkably poor judgment in the matter. The attorney general and gubernatorial candidate may have negatively affected a pending criminal investigation with his request, and his closeness to the girls’ family raises serious questions about whether the request was a product of political favoritism or genuine compassion.In October, two teenaged sisters—Shauna Murphy...