Eve Troeh is WWNO's News Director. In this role, Eve oversees the station’s expanding coverage of New Orleans and southeast Louisiana news stories, and develops New Orleans Public Radio's capability to report news of national significance for NPR.
Over the weekend New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu celebrated a big reelection victory. In triumph, the mayor reflected on the city's recovery from Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.
(SOUNDBITE OF SPEECH)
MAYOR MITCH LANDRIEU: We got up. We dusted ourselves off. We took that first step. And then we took another. We pressed on and we as a people have come back strong.
President Barack Obama delivered a speech on the economy and the Affordable Care Act during his appearance at the Port of New Orleans on Friday.
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Massive cranes stretching into the distance at the Port of New Orleans.
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Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield speaks to Governor Bobby Jindal before the speech by President Barack Obama.
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Security was tighter than usual throughout the Port facility, including Coast Guard helicopter flybys and snipers stationed atop nearby shipping containers.
Originally published on Fri November 8, 2013 5:06 pm
President Barack Obama visited the Port of New Orleans on Friday, Nov. 8, delivering a speech on the state of the economy and the vitality of the nation's ports, and touching on future infrastructure spending and the Affordable Care Act.
The full text of the President's remarks, as provided by the White House Press Office:
BP is fighting the settlement it agreed to last summer that let the oil company avoid thousands of potential lawsuits over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Just after the spill, when oil was still gushing into the Gulf, BP touted the $20 billion it set aside for claims. But now it says the claim process is corrupt and is hoping a court will overturn the settlement that established the claims fund.
Ending the claims would mean stopping a well-oiled machine.
Jill Pasquarella (right) pours powdered sugar on Brandon Connelly, who dressed as a baker from Hubig's Pies, during Mardi Gras in New Orleans in February.
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Firefighters work to put out the fire at Hubig's Pies in New Orleans on July 27, 2012.
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This 2007 picture taken before the fire that destroyed Hubig's Pies shows fresh glazed fruit-filled pies being wrapped for delivery at the bakery in New Orleans.
Almost any kind of comeback gets New Orleans excited, since the city lost so much in the flood after Hurricane Katrina. That goes especially for food.
One year ago Saturday, New Orleans lost a beloved brand when Hubig's pie bakery burned to the ground. The hand-held, fruit-filled crescents, fried golden-brown, had been delivered fresh to more than 1,000 local stores each morning.
Pie fans have come out in droves to support the company. But it takes more than T-shirts and fond memories to restart a business from scratch.
Free introductory copies of the Baton Rouge <em>Advocate</em>'s new New Orleans edition are seen next to copies of <em>The</em> <em>Times-Picayune</em> at Lakeside News in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie in September. The Baton Rouge newspaper started its own daily edition to try to fill the void left when <em>The</em> <em>Times-Picayune</em> scaled back its print edition to three days a week.
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A year later, these friends are still gathering to talk over the paper, but it's not <em>The Times-Picayune.</em> From left: Sue Paraski, Sharon Morrow, Eric Hartman, Joe Mole.
Last year when New Orleans' main paper, The Times-Picayune, laid off dozens of newspaper employees and cut its circulation to three times a week, residents were shocked.
Sharron Morrow and her friends had bonded over the morning paper at a local coffee shop for the past 20 years.
"I've stopped my subscription, and I mourn the paper almost every day," she says.
Originally published on Mon October 21, 2013 1:40 pm
A year ago today, news leaked that The Times-Picayune would cease daily publication, cut staff and focus on its website, NOLA.com. The paper and ink edition now hits doorsteps and newsstands just three days a week: Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
Little Freddie King at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2013, photographed by Skip Bolen.
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Little Freddie King at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 2013.
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<p>Skip Bolen says B.B. King is one of this year's most photogenic performers at the festival: "He has such great expressions."</p><p></p>
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Trombone Shorty at Jazz Fest in 2011.
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Dave Matthews' rain-soaked set at Jazz Fest 2013.
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Skip Bolen has attended the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for years, competing with other photographers for the best shots — and forming relationships with performers in the process.
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Bolen shot one of Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews' earliest public performances at the 2001 Jazz Fest. Andrews' teacher Clyde Kerr can be seen at the far right.
The 2013 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival wraps up Monday. This weekend and last, 12 stages have mixed such marquee names as Fleetwood Mac, Phoenix and Los Lobos with dozens of local bluesmen, soul belters and Cajun fiddle players.
