Comments on: But They Are Cutting Taxes…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 02:13:18 +0000

Given that NOLA.com is actually owned by the absentee owners of the newspaper in New Orleans, they don’t report on local issues as much as they once did when it was locally owned. After Katrina the local infrastructure still hasn’t been repaired.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 13:28:49 +0000

"US health officials have confirmed the presence of a ‘brain-eating’ amoeba in the water supply of several communities near New Orleans." "The amoeba's presence was evident at highest levels in the most conservative neighborhoods and in City Council chambers," NOLA.com did not report. :twisted:

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 01:39:16 +0000

In reply to paintedjaguar. Pumps use power, filters have to be replaced, and you sure don't expect them to waste money on chemicals. Actually in the late '60s a lot of facilities were abandoned because 'the wrong people might want to use them'.

By: paintedjaguar

paintedjaguar — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:22:44 +0000

Back in the late 1960’s, while I was visiting my cousins in central Lousiana, they took me down to the local municipal pool for a swim. It was your standard small concrete pool as found in the better motels of the time — but the water was muddy green.