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Jean Lafitte: The Times-Picayune covers 175 years of New Orleans history
In a different time, Jean Lafitte might have been just another successful businessman.
Fishers say coastal master plan revision could destroy their livelihoods
Fishers from St. Bernard, Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes on Monday night objected to the reliance of the state's proposed $50 billion, 50-year coastal restoration and protection master plan on large diversions of freshwater and sediment, charging that the freshwater will destroy their ability to catch shrimp and saltwater fish species.
Southeastern Author Writes Novel Based at the Battle of New Orleans
Newswise - HAMMOND - O'Neil De Noux, author of numerous police and mystery novels and short stories, has written an extensively-researched story of love and war that takes place at the Battle of New Orleans.
The offshore drilling life: cramped and dangerous
Their laundry and meals are taken care of and they get paid pretty well - about $60,000 a year for a young roughneck, $90,000 for a young engineer and $150,000 for a supervisor.
Fishin: You gotta find clean water inside if you want a catch right now
I don't care whether you're gonna fish at Shell Beach, Hopedale, Cocodrie, Delacroix, Geoghagen's Canal, or anywhere down the Barataria, if you expect to put any fish at all in the boat - and in your ice chest - this weekend, all my fishing buddies and charter captains agree that the howling winds we've had all week have dirtied up the water and ... (more)