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478 – The Shotgun Tracts of the Lower Mississippi | Strange Maps | Big Think
at least in New Orleans, is that it derived from a local tax on lot frontage. Such a tax, payable pro rata to the street-side width of a property, would have encouraged taxpayers to creative narrow-mindedness when building their house … Continue reading
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Hurricane Katrina after five years: a symbolic funeral but anger lives on
A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that a third of New Orleans residents say their lives are still getting worse because of the hurricane. African Americans were more than twice as likely as whites to say they … Continue reading
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