Mardi Gras 2011 has come and gone. New Orleans can now relax and get along with the life they are used to: living in the Big Easy!!!! Drew Brees has been in the media spotlight, speaking out on the NFL owners' position regarding the Players' Union disagreement with the offer proposed by the team owners. It looks like a lock out is imminent and the 2011 season will not be played. Funny how a few billion dollars makes people crazy.
Here in New Orleans, the local folks could use a few billion to clean things up even further than they have. New construction is ongoing, but it is piecemeal and spread out. The Times Picayune newspaper reported that the US Census of 2010 counted an extraordinary number of vacant residences w/i the City limits. These figures count just about anything and everything that could be considered a living unit. NOLA still has along way to go. It hasn't helped that the Recession has dragged on and on and on.
But the weather has been nice-spring-like, warm, and with very low humidity.
More later
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