05 June 2010, 1:01 pm
The Gulf Oil Gusher and Other Environmental Disasters — Totally Predictable and Preventable Today’s guest blogger is William A. “Willie” Fontenot. Willie served on the Clean Water Action Board from 1989 to 2007, much of that time as Board... Read More »
06 April 2010, 9:09 am
By James Sebastien The grandfather of environmentalism in Louisiana, Willie A. Fontenot; has sent a letter to the LDEQ. In short he says. “Officials in industry and government have known about the serious contamination of the Calcasieu River Basin for at least six or seven decades.... Read More »
28 October 2009, 1:01 pm
By James Sebastien Tony Wagner is the CO-Director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of four books about education. Including his most recent, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival... Read More »
25 August 2009, 12:12 pm
By James Sebastien As I watched President Obama’s press conference on July 24, announcing his plans to reform education. I found myself wondering. Wondering, what would I have said to he and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, as they planned The Race to The... Read More »
06 January 2009, 11:11 am
By James Sebastien Several sunday nights ago, around eleven, I walked outside to put the trashcan out for the pick up in the morning. I looked across the street at Bayou St. John, and I noticed a little lady asleep. Asleep on the bank of Bayou St. John. I began to go... Read More »
06 January 2009, 10:10 am
The Citizen Courier's New Orleans Ledger (www.neworleansledger.com) is pleased to welcome James Sebastien, our new editor and contributing blogger from New Orleans, Louisiana! James will be a valuable addition to our ever-growing team of local news contributors and we look forward to his unique... Read More »
29 July 2010, 9:00 pm
NEW ORLEANS -- A procedure intended to ease the job of permanently plugging the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could start as early as the weekend, the government's point man for the spill response said Thursday. Business - Arts and Entertainment - Recreation - Death - United States... Read More »
29 July 2010, 7:53 pm
An abandoned well struck by a barge in southeastern Louisiana early Tuesday is still spewing a mixture of oil, gas and water, and it could take 10 days before it is capped.... Read More »
29 July 2010, 6:43 pm
Two New Orleans police officers were indicted on federal charges in a 2005 beating death while they were on patrol, part of a Justice Department inquiry that has led to charges against 18 officers.... Read More »
29 July 2010, 4:34 pm
NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana's coastal parish presidents, Gov. Bobby Jindal and the government's point man on the BP oil spill disaster, retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, spent about two hours at the same table with BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles. The Thursday morning meeting in a downtow... Read More »
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