Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on September 4th, 2015. See original post here.
In most cases a two-for-one deal would be a money saver for both partners in a business arrangement.
That might not be the case when it comes to...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on August 26th, 2015. See original post here.
As New Orleans flooded during Hurricane Katrina, the horror of seeing a famous city inundated was overshadowed by a greater shock: Tens of thousands of its citizens...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on August 26th, 2015. See original post here.
Rick Luettich is a world-renowned hurricane storm-surge modeler who sits on the board of the New Orleans flood-protection authority. He said the city’s new $14.5-billion levee system designed...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on August 24th, 2015. See original post here.
Like many Hurricane Katrina survivors, former Louisiana State University research scientist and instructor Ivor van Heerden sometimes tears up at certain memories. He didn’t lose a house or...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on August 20th, 2015. See original post here.
The Lens has partnered with PolitiFact for the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to see if President Barack Obama has followed through on his campaign promises about the storm...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on August 19th, 2015. See original post here.
The Lens has partnered with PolitiFact for the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to see if President Barack Obama has followed through on his campaign promises about the storm...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on August 6th, 2015. See original post here.
The heat reflecting off the concrete floodwall along Orleans Canal one July morning made the heat index of 109 seem like a joke, but a three-man team...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted in The Lens on July 15th, 2015. See original post here.
Ever since the extent of the Deepwater Horizon spill became obvious, coastal advocates have said the disaster had a silver lining: The fines BP eventually would pay...
Dec
21
2015
On a warm and muggy morning, architectural designer Ramiro Diaz is twisting a hand auger — a length of 1-inch iron pipe — into the New Orleans soil behind the Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue. About 2 feet...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on May 20th, 2015. See original post here.
These are nervous times for some supporters of the RESTORE Act, the law that will divert 80 percent of the fines BP will pay for polluting the Gulf of Mexico from...
