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SFMPOP Comment Period Extended
2008-10-05 03:39:00 From Gambit's blog: The Orleans Parish School Board has announced that it is extending the deadline for public comments for the School Facilities Master Plan to October 17 at 5 p.m. ... It?s no secret, however, that state Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek is intent on getting the plan approved before ... More About: Comment , Extended , Period
SFMPOP: End of Comment Period TOMORROW
2008-10-02 03:37:00 The brief comment period ends tomorrow, Oct. 1. Comment s can be emailed to masterplan@rsdla.net. Multiple issues can be addressed: the closing of a particular school or schools; the unidentified re-use of the buildings of closed and never-reopened schools; the historic character of many of our public school buildings (some of ... More About: Tomorrow , Period
Insomnia: Year Huh?
2008-10-02 03:37:00 Woke at 12:47 this morning after going to bed at 10. I saw 1:55, 2:34 and 3:35 before I gave up on relaxing, thinking about My Happy Place (which is far from here, on a beach, with a soft breeze and someone to put a mojito, margarita or hard lemonade ... More About: Insomnia , Year
The Palin Truth
2008-09-29 03:35:00 Oyster's got a fabulous post on the flimflam that is VP nominee Sarah Palin. And I'd like to point out to Gov. Palin and her true-believers fan club that Alaska is next to Siberia, hardly the center of Russian political power or trade. I still say this choice of Palin should tell ... More About: Truth
KFC, KFC, KFC, K
2008-09-29 03:35:00 KFC, a YouTube jewel. Absolutely brilliant. [Not for work or children.]
Free at Last, Free at Last
2008-09-27 03:34:00 The Bitch is back. Again. Look for me at bark, bugs, leaves, and lizards tonight---we'll either liveblog a debate or liveblog McCain's dumb/poor tactical move. And it doesn't look like suspending his campaign has helped Congress and the White House reach a deal. More About: Free , Free At Last
To Go Home
2008-09-04 15:23:00 All checkpoints lifted. New Orleans residents can come home Might not have power. So be it. I'm bringing what I can from TX. It's about time we were allowed to come home and clean up. I know damn well the City is not going to clean up my street. Mister did that ... More About: Home
Now, We Wait
2008-09-03 15:22:00 The Bitch and fam are safe and sound outside LA. Now we wait. I see, too, that folks I never expected to evacuate left this time. More About: Wait
The Wait Continues
2008-09-03 15:22:00 Maitri has beeen Tweeting all morning and afternoon. The latest: WWL footage of overtopping at Florida Ave looks a lot worse than an hour ago. We're going to hear a lot of rumors here on out. If you hear something, please pass on a source. If you can't, ask for confirmation. And check ... More About: Wait
It?s Time
2008-08-31 03:20:00 Last time, I felt dread in the soles of my feet and we left early, were settled in our exile before some people even thought about going. Now, we are on the tail end, leaving at the last moment, wanting to believe it would be all right and we could ... More About: Time
Liveblogging the Dem Convention Finale: Mister, G-Bitch &?
2008-08-30 03:19:00 Meet chet_hix. Here's his self-disclosure: And I'm bringing a ton of bias. When McCain decided to take the low road and employ the same tired-ass, fear-and-smear strategy the Republicans have been rolling out since Reagan, I was actually surprised. I thought he was smarter than that. They can't ... More About: Finale , Bitch , Convention , Liveblogging
Still Not OK
2008-08-30 03:19:00 It's hard to think about Katrina or much of anything with Gustav a few days away. If I am ordered to leave, I will go. If not, I'm staying put. I'll get back to the post-Flood life post-Gustav and -Hanna.
Make Friends, Lose Friends
2008-08-26 15:16:00 Some people, maybe more than some, think that if The Shit went down, they'd be on the side of Righteous Rebellion, like the hero (always a hero) in a sci-fi-ish movie with lots of grungy interiors and wince-inducing character or place names. But many of them wouldn't. In times of ... More About: Friends , Make
RT3: The Risen
2008-08-24 21:14:00 Best moments for me: Robert Cerasoli squeezing my hand and saying he likes my blog. (pic from Tin Can Trailer Trash) John Barry. Wow. Meeting Leigh Dingerson, talking, sharing, eating lunch together---and she likes my blog, too! I admire her dedication, clear-eyedness and thoughtfulness. She has a wealth of information and has ...
RTIII
2008-08-24 03:12:00 Maitri's liveblogging. So? Get your ass over there. *** John Barry: the levees that failed and flooded the 9th Ward, NO East, etc. were along canals, human-made outlets that benefit the entire nation. His op-eds---always submitted with the title Things You Don't Know about Katrina. "If the geological facts were known"---dams in ND make us ...
Who? Really? Oh.
2008-08-23 15:11:00 If you're reading, you probably already know Who I Really Am. Congratulations. Once it starts to slip, you can't shove it back in. If you don't know, trust me, the information will not be enlightening. You'd say, at most, Oh. I've never been much for self-exposure, visibility, or "presence." Bits of ...
?no fundamental flaws?
2008-08-22 15:10:00 It infuriates me---imagine---each time I hear on the news or read in the news that Big Charity "was flooded by hurricane Katrina," a description that makes the 1938 Art Deco structure sound unsalvageable. When it really is. Only the lowest floor, the basement, flooded. Windows broke, too, on some floors. ... More About: Fundamental
Sad, Absurd, Disheartening
2008-08-22 15:10:00 Evaluating the School Facilities Master Plan---We Could Be Famous E evaluates more than the schools plan---he starts at Nagin's Bring New Orleans Back Commission, cuts through the Unified NO Plan to Concordia-Parsons, the "plan" and the starving of neighborhoods to shrink the city whether we like it or not to Pastorek's ... More About: Absurd
Again We Rise
2008-08-22 15:10:00 Rising Tide III I will actually be there this year. Check the schedule and don't be late. More About: Rise
The Master?s Plan #2
2008-08-19 15:09:00 I've been busier than 4390 mofos and my head will still be spinning Friday night. Actually, it may be in orbit by Friday night. If you love me enough, I'll tell you all about it. One thing I have yet to peruse is the School Facilities Master Plan . E has. Go ... More About: The Master
Where IS a Bitch?
2008-08-16 15:07:00 All over the damn place. But I'll only be here once, maybe twice, a week for a few months. With too many plates spinning, I got a set of saucers. Oops. photo courtesy of itsjustanalias, used under this Creative Commons license More About: Bitch
Choke
2008-08-16 15:07:00 I went back to work yesterday. Whoa. Lots to be done. And I haven't even laid hand on all the textbooks yet. Or even thought for 5 minutes about teaching. Whoa squared. More About: Choke
Peeves/d
2008-08-14 15:06:00 1. "This is the end of John Edwards' political career." I didn't care that Sen. Vitter "frequented" prostitutes, or a couple he especially liked. That's his business. That's his marriage, cash. intimate lies, unmet needs, etc. and I really don't care about the sex lives of people I'm not sleeping with. ... More About: Peeves
Roots
2008-08-07 02:46:00 ...all groups suffered after Democratic Redeemers launched their determined attack on the reforms in public education that had occurred during Reconstruction. ... It was a humiliating and sad spectacle for an urban system once ranked among the nation's best. Problems began soon after a new twenty-member board took office on April ... More About: Roots
The Really Scary Mary Part
2008-08-06 02:45:00 You've more than likely heard plenty about the gun lobby mole Mary Lou McFate/Sapone but the scariest part of the story comes at the end of There's Something About Mary: Unmasking a Gun Lobby Mole: Sapone made her gun control work a family affair as well. Around 2003, Montgomery [Sapone, Mary ... More About: Scary , Part
The Heat of Hell Hounds
2008-08-03 02:43:00 Every year at this time, I say, repeatedly: If it's hot as a motherfucker, it must be Satchmofest I do not think Louis/Pops would want me or anybody else out in this kind of heat eating red beans To honor Armstrong in August is just this side---or the other---of insulting. Happy birthday last month, ... More About: Heat , Hell
Huh?
2008-08-01 02:42:00 The early rain does not have me fuzzy-headed. I really do not understand what Stacy Head got pissed about, what was said and why she's threatening Tambourine and Fan. [Treme Community Center director Jerome] Smith brought about 200 children to the City Council Thursday to protest the actions of two New ...
What the Hell?.?
2008-08-01 02:42:00 You can find me over at The Rude Pundit today. Just don't hold that post against me. It was a really fucking slow news day for me. More About: Hell
Data Don?t Matter? Academic Research and School Choice?Final Excerpt
More articles from this author:2008-07-26 02:40:00 Are there studies that clear the validity checks proposed here and still come to positive conclusions about choice? Yes. The work of Mark Schneider, Paul Teske, and various colleagues is a good example. They have a clear concept of choice and what it should do (that is, they have a ... More About: Academic , Research , Data , School , Final 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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