We are losing wetlands at the rate of a football field every 45 minutes. Find out why the US needs to help Louisiana save the wetlands. The Times-Picayune and nola.com created a very interesting flash movie at:
http://www.nola.com/speced/lastchance/multimedia/flash.ssf?flashlandloss1.swf.
Mark Samuels on News Hour with Jim Lehrer Tonight
Mark Samuels, the president of New Orleans based Basin Street Records, will be on News Hour with Jim Lehrer tonight as part of their coverage of Governor Blanco’s miserably failing Road Home Program. You can access the program online HERE.
EDDIE JORDAN: Step Down NOW!!!
Please sign this online petition to ask the New Orleans’ District Attorney Eddie Jordan to step down. If you wonder why, take a look at the stories that I link to below the petition link. http://www.gopetition.com/sign.php?petid=11128
GET MAD when you read the stories on these links below:
Nola.com
Gambit Weekly
WWLTV
Blogs.abcnews.com
Nola.com
pbs.org
Nola.com
Irvin Mayfield on NPR’s Fresh Air Today
Irvin Mayfield will be a featured on NPR’s Fresh Air today. Check local listings. In the New Orleans area Fresh Air runs on WWNO, 89.9 FM at 6:30pm. The show can also be heard online HERE. Happy Mardi Gras!
Mark Samuels, President, Basin Street Records quoted in AP Story on ICF and Road Home Program
Today, Mark Samuels, president of New Orleans based Basin Street Records, is quoted in an AP story on Governor Blanco’s Road Home Program and ICF, the contractor hired to run the program.
Read the least edited version I can find HERE.
For an abbreviated story with the best caption under a photo of Mark Samuels read HERE.
What they did not include from my interview is that I blame Governor Blanco 100%, and that if she hadn’t waited for the full funding from Congress, this program could have had at least a 6 month headstart. She knew she had approximately $6.2 billion in December 2005 for this program and others, but waited on the other $4.6 billion that was approved by Congress in June 2006 (read about that HERE) to set up the mechanism for distributing the funds. The system could have been put in place much earlier and the dollar figures could have been adjusted upward in the event the full funding was approved.
They also don’t note that Basin Street Records is located now in my home because I lost the office on Canal Street due to flooding as well. And they don’t note that my home, that was worth $700,000 and is currently probably only worth about $300,000 won’t be worth more than $400,000 after I put $250,000 in repairs into it.
Also note that Basin Street Records is being operated out of Mark’s gutted home because the office on Canal Street was also flooded.
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has announced its lineup for 2007. The dates of this year’s festival are April 27-29 and May 4-6.
Kick off your Jazzfest on Thursday, April 26th with Basin Street Records’ 10th Jazzfest Party at the Howlin Wolf. Your ticket not only includes our party featuring Henry Butler and Theresa Andersson, but also a show by none other than Little Feat!
FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE.
Basin Street Records’ artists performing at the Fairgrounds on the first weekend are as follows: Theresa Andersson, Henry Butler (both with his own band and as a member of New Orleans Social Club), Jon Cleary (both with his own band and as a member of Bonnie Raitt’s band), Kermit Ruffins and Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. On the second weekend you can find Dr. Michael White. Please come to New Orleans. We are Open. To Just About Anything (I dare you to click on this link to see for yourself).