"Road Home" too long for some New Orleanians
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Roy Montague stood outside the government-supplied trailer in front of his New Orleans house and pointed across the street to a line of rotting homes virtually untouched since Hurricane Katrina 15 months ago.
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For some college students, the hardest part about studying abroad wasn't adjusting to life in a foreign country. It was coming home.
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Some version of the immigrantâs tale told in âGolden Doorâ is part of the family history of millions of Americans.
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Country radio has had a rough go of it in the big city.
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I recently moved from a small apartment in Oakland to a new house in Sacramento. The cat and I are adjusting quite well, thank you, though for about one month, I was without a kitchen. Or a water heater. Or downstairs flooring. It may not have been the best-laid renovation plan.
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You might be surprised how far you have to drive from New Orleans, LA to get to the Gulf of Mexico.  Following     the west bank of the Mississippi River along Hwy 23, you go through the separate and well-separated towns of     Belle Chasse, Pointe a la Hache, Port Sulphur, Empire, Boothville, and finally over 60 miles from New Orleans     the tiny oilfield supply and marina town of Venice.    At Empire the highway goes over a pretty tall bridge and on the other side of the canal, beyond the levee     system, Katrina's storm surge came through with a vengeance.  The roads have been cleared but everywhere along     them are the twisted skeletons of steel buildings with vegetation hanging out of shattered second-story     windows.  A refrigerator sits atop the flooded husk of a house.  A perfect square of fenceless pickets     surrounds a perfectly bare concrete slab.  The occasional forlorn FEMA trailer can be spotted parked on one of     many slabs in a field of such slabs that was once a neighborhood.  The carcass of a cow is wedged improbably     in the canopy of a tree twenty feet up.    What is striking is not that the landscape looks like this; most of the coastline of Louisiana and Mississippi     experienced such damage.  What is striking is that it looked like this when I visited last week, in August     2006, almost an entire year after the storm came through.
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NEW ORLEANS -- It was an ill-advised journey to a moribund city, the place of my birth and upbringing. Family and friends, all living elsewhere, begged me not to come here. My wife, Mary Anne, feared that I would become depressed.
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Louisiana officials on Tuesday night set a July 31 deadline for applicants to the Road Home program because the program is expected to be far more expensive than was originally anticipated.
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As a lifelong resident of Louisiana, the U.S. state that gave us  Huey Long and  David Duke, I have always  taken comfort in the fact that my home state is an island  of insanity in a country that mostly gets it right.    But lately I recognize some disturbingly familiar trends on  the national scene.  Listen if you will to the tale of two  elections, and decide for yourself if the USA as a whole is  turning into Louisiana.
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By Rosemary Shinohara, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 17--After a year of politicking and hard work, Spenard residents who fought to shrink a city road project that threatened to change the character of their neighborhood are getting most of what they asked for.
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By Chloe Morrison, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jun. 18--LAFAYETTE, Ga.
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The city's iconic St. Charles Avenue streetcar line returned to partial service Tuesday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, but it has a long way to go before serving the full length of its old route.
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MY father died while planning his last trip home. An Irish emigrant who had gone to the New World, he suffered the usual homesickness, a homesickness that became more compelling with each passing year.
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With thousands of New Orleans musicians still scattered around the country in a veritable diaspora, the cultural heritage of the Big Easy is in peril
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By Blair Anthony Robertson, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 22--When Mark and Janet Thew bought their lot in Loomis in 1999 and built their Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired house the following year, they thought they were putting down roots in a rural paradise.
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It looks like an undeveloped dirt lot in a residential neighborhood, so city officials decided to put a long-awaited four-lane road extension through it.
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Technically, the first road game of Sheylani Peddy 's college basketball career was more of a home game.