Miss. mayor indicted on Katrina fraud charges

Looks like the mayor of Gulfport is in a bit of trouble. Maybe we'll see more of these in the post-Bush era: Miss. mayor indicted on Katrina fraud charges.

JFK and the N.O. Mob

Something most New Orleanians have know for decades, but gossip columnist (!) Liz Smith tells the story of the N.O. mob and Carlos Marcello and their involvement in the JFK assassination: JFK ASSASSINATION 'CONFESSION'

Mississippi has highest teen birth rate

Louisiana is always grateful to Mississippi for keeping us off the bottom of all of those lists: Mississippi has highest teen birth rate

The Old Man and the Storm

A PBS Frontline documentary on post-Katrina called The Old man and the Storm.

Silver Linings

In the Vanity Fair article on the Bush Era, it is widely agreed by insiders that Katrina (or more appropriately, the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina) was the 'final nail in the coffin', 'the tipping point', etc.: Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House.