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New Orleans memo: You can still have great music without noise pollution

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Sometimes a name can tell you a lot. In the past, I've told you about my enthusiastic support for a New Orleans group, active on Facebook and the Internet, that's called "Hear the Music, Stop the Noise." The title makes a powerful point: That it's possible for a great American city like my hometown to continue having a spectacular and vibrant music scene without assaulting people's eardrums and harming their health. This public education campaign has been very successful. Since launching in January of this year, the website has received over 18,000 hits and over 20,000 page views. Hundreds have signed the petition on the website. The Facebook page has 167 people who have friended our page and we are getting more every day. We're not opposed to the great venues in the Big Easy -- the Cajun rhythms of a bar like the Maple Leaf or the world-class funk of a Tipitina's, not to mention the great jazz that New Orleans is famous for. Most of the worst noise offenders are bars whose owners do not appreciate the need to have balance such that they have dragged down once-great entertainment strips like Bourbon Street, even as wonderful food and ...


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