Living in an area that catches every storm that boils out of the Gulf will breed a certain toughness in a people. That may be the parish's best hope for rebuilding.

Southern Living reaches a huge number of travelers, and it's very gratifying to know that so many of them name our shopping opportunities as their favorite.

We were the first melting pot city in America. It's striking that those great waves of immigration from Mexico passed us by.

We've solved our crime problem in a brutally Darwinian way.

Both the perpetrators and the victims have been washed out,

I can't see the political storms aligning to allow that, ... I wish them well, but the view from the man on the street is, 'Why rebuild something if it's just going to flood again? Why not let it return to nature?'