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Mercenary Outfit Send Mass Email Offering Positions in the Wake of Gustav

Blackwater is compiling a list of qualified security personnel for possible deployment into areas affected by Hurricane Gustav. Applicants must meet all items listed under the respective Officer posting and be US citizens. Contract length is TBD.

Big Easy Chooses Between Nagin, Landrieu

Voters were deciding Saturday whether incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin or challenger Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu should oversee this city's long recovery from Hurricane Katrina one of the largest reconstruction projects in U.S. history.

Crazy New Orleans Mayoral Candidate Having a Bad Week - Wonkette

Some people don't get it.

Activists and Police Clash Over Housing in New Orleans

Seven months after the storm, tenants said they want answers on the future of one of the city's largest public housing sites. Several accused the Housing Authority of New Orleans of dragging its feet to appease a growing disdain for housing the poor in the city's post-Katrina landscape.

EDITORIAL: A dam shame

To the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the flood-protection system surrounding greater New Orleans was just another levee project. Many such projects are located in sparsely populated areas and merely keep water away from cattle and cane fields. So they are designed to a lower safety standard than, say, dams. Our area's levees and floodwalls were built to that same relatively low standard. The hundreds of thousands of lives that depended on the integrity of those structures apparently didn't factor into the plans.