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Sandy Rosenthal
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Reporting from New Orleans! #nokingsday
October 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The Slingshot from Levees.org is proud to present an hour-long special episode in observance of the 20th anniversary of the flooding catastrophe in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

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August 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Local celebrity Rudy Vorkapic––creator of “The Levee” newspaper––and Sandy talk about what New Orleans and the nation was like One Month Prior to Hurricane Katrina and the Flood.

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August 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Here at the start of hurricane season 2025, the Slingshot panel talks about the administration's plan to dismantle FEMA.

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June 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The founder of levees.org recently saw an injustice. A retired Harahan, LA were being treated like criminals for providing nest boxes for a migrating songbird. She created a support community for them and at this time there is peace. And baby purple martins! Video by Marcus Bouler
May 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
In this episode of The Slingshot: Stuart, Rudy and Sandy discuss the loyalty that the Trump administration has enjoyed despite the controversial decisions it has made throughout 2025.

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May 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
On this episode of The Slingshot, Rudy, Stuart and Sandy discuss the terms liberal and conservative. And Bob Marley.

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May 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In this episode of The Slingshot, Rudy, Stuart and I discuss the summary removal to offshore of people who merely appear to match a profile.

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May 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
In the final episode (#123) of Beat the Big Guys, Sandy interviews Ken McCarthy, the person who first recognized the click-through metric’s value that led directly to the Internet becoming available to all.

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April 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Rudy Vorkapic, Stuart Lob and Sandy discuss the resignation of four Levee Board members upon the governor's selection of its president and what this could mean for New Orleans' levees and the people who live behind them.

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April 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Those calling to reform the pre-Katrina levee boards claimed the members didn't stop the Corps of Engineers from building the floodwalls that failed. But no one tells the Corps what to do. It was the Corps’ poor construction that flooded New Orleans. Episode 122

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March 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The pre-Katrina levee board members were scapegoated for the 2005 flooding. They were project managers who oversaw the levee maintenance. It was the Corps’ poor designs that flooded New Orleans. Check out episode 122 of Beat the Big Guys.
March 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The pre-Katrina levee board members were scapegoated for the catastrophic flooding of New Orleans. One member was a Catholic nun, but they were all wrongly portrayed as corrupt. It was the Corps that flooded the city. Episode 122 of Beat the Big Guys podcast.

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March 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
In this week's episode of The Slingshot, we discuss Joe Biden's pardon of his son Hunter and what it means for the near future.

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December 16, 2024 at 9:15 PM