Sunday, June 25, 2006

06/24/2006 NOLA News

Louisiana, New Orleans Area FEMA Flood Maps Online
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... flood maps on its web site http://www.fema.gov/hazard/flood/recoverydata/katrina/katrina_la_maps.shtm. The maps include Jefferson , Orleans , Plaquemines, St ...

In devastated, desolate Big Easy, visitors find hopeful signs of ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... It's East New Orleans, recently inhabited by a mostly African American middle class. It's an area where Katrina floodwaters reached more than 8 feet in places. ...
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Design summit focuses on South Bronx, New Orleans
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA
... Other projects will include the manufacturing of furniture out of waste materials from Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans to raise money and ...

New Orleans, Louisiana Needs Home Money Faster, Sooner
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... real estate (generally) as part of the federal home block grants passed post-Katrina. ... To build Louisiana and New Orleans , an October timetable is unacceptable ...
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In New Orleans, guard 'not here to eat beignets'
Oxford Press - Oxford,OH,USA
... A lively drug trade has helped send New Orleans' murder rate, long ranked among the nation's worst, even higher than it was before Katrina by some reckonings. ...

New Orleans enforces youth curfew
Political Gateway - Deerfield Beach,FL,USA
NEW ORLEANS, June 24 (UPI) -- New Orleans has begun enforcing its new attempt at ... youth curfew imposed immediately after Hurricane Katrina devastated the ...

Teens work on New Orleans recovery
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... Crossroads Project, whose goal is to build 40 homes in 10 weeks in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. It was one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. ...

New Orleans Is Happy Host to Meeting of Librarians
New York Times - United States
... "The ALA was very careful to reassure us that New Orleans would be ready for us," said ... "Katrina wasn't the problem," Susan Pittman of St. Mary's, Ohio, said. ...
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New Orleans in the grip of a Depression Epidemic
MedIndia - India
... in New Orleans who deals with psychiatric cases called attention to the annual rate of suicides of more than 26 per 100,000 in the months after Katrina. ...
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Katrina evacuees return to New Orleans after NY sojurn
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
CHAPPAQUA — Ten months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans and brought the Gertlers to Chappaqua, they are returning today to resume a life ...

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