Alternative New Media for the Gulf South
When she “was five and he was six” and they “rode on horses made of sticks”, surely they didn’t ride into Galatoire’s to make the “awful sound”! Today’s Times Picayune reports the identity of the “baby” who “shot…down” in Galatoire’s gun mystery, owner revealed: On Friday afternoon, the convivial hum of a dozen simultaneous conversations … Continue reading “Bang bang that awful sound – TP names the baby who shot…down”
Thanks to prosecutors Glen Woods and Wendy Baldwin Vitter, “the Orleans Parish jury that sent Booker Diggins off to prison for the rest of his life on Jan. 25, 1988, didn’t hear much about the rape he supposedly committed during a robbery,” according to the Times Picayune’s story Lifer at Angola unearths DNA evidence that … Continue reading ““Lifer at Angola unearths DNA evidence…” and Wendy Vitter surfaces!”
Before I tackle the subject of post Katrina police shootings in New Orleans I’ll publically disclose the man whom I knew as my grandfather (actually step granddad) growing up in Waveland was retired NOPD. He was admired widely for years after he left the force by the other officers but not for any particular acts of … Continue reading “Law and Disorder in the City. More horror stories emerge from post Katrina New Orleans”
I was recently emailed the link to the recent NY Times Magazine article on Dr Pou which took a fresh look at the actions of several of the Docs at Memorial Hospital after Katrina and as one particularily well placed reader in the NOLA area put it, the emergent facts are “most disturbing”. Minyard told … Continue reading ““Dr Death” Anna Pou gets a second looksie”