Don’t forget history while enjoying concert
Ah yes, brass bands such as Rebirth Brass Band are the signature sound of New Orleans. Just about any day of the week, you can hear that funky sound out on a street somewhere.
There is something that I’d like the author of Thursday’s Chattanooga Now (page 9) article to not only hear but also to understand.
The short report states, ” the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction in New Orleans ” This just simply does not do justice to what happened in August and September 2005. The massive failure of federal levees played a huge role in the destruction, with breaches in over 50 places in and around the metro area. For that, the blame can be placed on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
I hope that the good people of Chattanooga will somehow get a history lesson while tapping their feet this evening.
Jamie Radley
New Orleans
Miller Park parking lot would be more helpful
The rich and powerful have totally destroyed what was a gem downtown for their planned unworkable idiocy.
Therefore I suggest that the federal government, by eminent domain, or whatever, seize the land for a parking lot for the benefit of the federal building. As the rich and powerful have taken from the people, let them see how it feels to have it done to them. Miller Park, RIP.
Jonn Mulry
‘Scaremongering’ has no place on opinion pages
As one who prefers the Free Press editorials, I want to suggest that publishing the Arkansas Democrat Gazette editorial was irresponsible. That writer wanted to score a “hit” against single-payer health insurance and was ready to grasp at anything within reach that might achieve that purpose. In this instance, what lay within reach was the tragic situation of Charlie Gard.
But with this ploy came inseparable difficulties: 1) the writer had to acknowledge that the U.S.’s private health insurers would deal with Charlie Gard’s situation just as Britain’s single-payer NHS has done. The argument collapsed right there. 2) It was necessary to blur any distinction between the NHS and the British legal system, in which the question of Charlie’s possible ongoing experimental treatment is still being heard. Again: case not proved.
What is this but the generation of heat instead of light? That it should be repeated in our newspaper after a first “go” in Arkansas represents a failure of editorial judgment. Our health care discussions need to be driven by the overriding question of what achieves the common good. How are today’s uninsured or underinsured helped by this kind of scaremongering?
Ken Stewart
Lookout Mountain, Ga.