molly peterson

Orleans Parish/Freedom of Information Officer Office of Emergency Management City Hall 9E01 New Orleans, LA 70112 To Whom It May Concern: I am writing to obtain a copy of the Comprehensive Emergency Response Plan for Orleans Parish. Federal law creates a Local Emergency Planning Committee for each local entity in the country; Orleans Parish is such an entity. Each LEPC is supposed to have what’s called a Comprehensive Emergency Response Plan, which contains information local officials will use if there’s

It was good, albeit brief, to check back in with the denizens of St. Philip street, of the Faubourg St. John, of American Routes and New Orleans in general, while I was in town for jazzfest. Maybe one of my favorite encounters may have come at the Fais Do Do stage. This guy looks an awful lot like Alan, my nosy mailman. If he’s not, he captures Alan’s effortless essence: which is to say, this guy cut quite a rug.

Small but intrepid, I would describe the annual crowd this year. Though everything seemed differently shaped. The way a the lines and porportions that make up a street or a corner of a neighborhood in an urban setting shift once you really know them. Which I suppose I’m on my way to doing. But take the weather. (Take it far away and bring me back some pleasant coastal breezes!) I had already, for example, sweated through a July and August