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Louisiana Residents Confront Trash Pileups

By Robert Smith
Published September 27, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT
Bywater neighborhood resident Jeffrey Holmes emptied the contents of his flooded artist's studio into the median strip out front. "There's no other place to put it," he says.
Josh Rogosin, NPR
Bywater neighborhood resident Jeffrey Holmes emptied the contents of his flooded artist's studio into the median strip out front. "There's no other place to put it," he says.

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Robert Smith is a host for NPR's Planet Money where he tells stories about how the global economy is affecting our lives.
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