08/22/2006 NOLA News

New Orleans: One Year After Hurricane Katrina
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA
... Louisiana the last week in July, we decided to visit New Orleans for a ... Even now, almost a year later, the residual effects of Hurricane Katrina were plainly ...

New Orleans seeks to build regional appeal
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
By Michael Wallace. But the New Orleans Saints are hoping to change things with their new regional approach in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans Journey Home Center Opens
Click 2 Houston.com - Houston,TX,USA
HOUSTON -- A center designed to help Hurricane Katrina evacuees return to New Orleans opened in Houston, KPRC Local 2 reported. ...
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New Orleans Housing Advocates Plan Protests While HUD Head ...
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
This group called “ Survivors Village ” claim that one year after Hurricane Katrina over 15,000 New Orleans residents remain in diaspora due to HUD´s ...
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Trying to Make It Home: New Orleans One Year After Katrina
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
... a report from Special Reporter Arjun Sengupta who visited New Orleans in fall of ... by the rescue and evacuation plans implemented when Hurricane Katrina hit the ...
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APME Conference In New Orleans Centers on Katrina and Web
Editor & Publisher - USA
NEW YORK Hurricane Katrina will be front and center at the Associated Press Managing Editors annual convention in New Orleans this fall, with events that ...

Gonzales vows federal aid to fight New Orleans crime
CNN - USA
... to supplement the fugitive task force in New Orleans. Officials said that after an initial drop in crime in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, violent crime has ...
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The Investment Column: New Orleans shores up Keller's interim ...
Independent - London,England,UK
Keller is busy bolstering New Orleans' flood defences to make sure that the tragedy that followed last year's Hurricane Katrina is not repeated. ...

Spike sounds off
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... The New Orleans Saints' dome-opener Sept. ... Wednesday, the mood in the Arena swung with the film's acts as they recounted Hurricane Katrina's approach, the levee ...
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New Orleans still muddling through Katrina issues
CTV.ca - Canada
29, 2005, the dreaded Hurricane Katrina blew into the US Gulf Coast as a Category Four storm. It pounded New Orleans for hours, but while the fierce winds blew ...

08/20/2006 NOLA News

New Orleans' Soul Survival
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... an elderly couple who had spent nearly the entire year since Hurricane Katrina living in their garage behind their flood-ravaged house in New Orleans' 9th Ward ...

New Orleans' port nears pre-Katrina level
Houston Chronicle - United States
NEW ORLEANS - The Port of New Orleans, which sustained heavy damage from Hurricane Katrina, had regained nearly 94 percent of its pre-storm cargo by the end of ...
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One year after Katrina, CAW members help rebuild New Orleans' ...
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... moon more than three decades ago, yet a year after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina it still hasn't managed to clean up New Orleans' poorest neighbourhood. ...
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Wynton Marsalis organizes Hurricane Katrina anniversary event in ...
JazzTimes Magazine - USA
To commemorate the upcoming anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (pictured), a United ...

Not Too Late for New Orleans
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... cities. New Orleans has yet to recover from Hurricane Katrina, and probably won't until the fifth or 10th or 20th anniversary. And ...
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Spike Lee And Racism Charges Hits New Orleans Katrina Anniversary
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... He has his explaining too. Throughout the week, New Orleans will be filled with Katrina events from wreath layings to jazz funerals to celebrations. ...
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Photos and more explore Katrina's blow to New Orleans
Houston Chronicle - United States
The Historic New Orleans Collection presents a free exhibition, City of Hope: New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina, at the Williams Gallery, 533 Royal St. ...

Where Did the Gulf Coasters Go?
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... ALMOST A YEAR after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, media attention remains riveted on the rebuilding of New Orleans. ...
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Photo exhibit compelling look at New Orleans' Ninth Ward
Birmingham News - Birmingham,AL,USA
Nine months after hurricane Katrina, Kevin Bubriski and Steven Atha traveled to New Orleans to attend a jazz festival. The Ninth ...

GOING HOME Build a better New Orleans
Houston Chronicle - United States
The social duress of New Orleans has long demanded attention. Abysmal conditions before Hurricane Katrina hit landfall are catastrophic one year later, with ...

Press Club of New Orleans commemorates Katrina Anniversary with ...
Louisiana Weekly - New Orleans,LA,USA
The Press Club of New Orleans is joining the hundreds of organizations that are holding events Commemorating the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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08/19/2006 NOLA News

Xavier In New Orleans Receives Contribution From Tavis Smiley and ...
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS– Bishop Noel Jones, pastor of the City of Refuge church in ... Xavier continues recovery efforts one year after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. ...

Bringing music back to New Orleans
WHOI - Peoria,IL,USA
BLOOMINGTON -- A Twin Cities musician, who barely escaped Hurricane Katrina last year, says he's trying to bring music back to New Orleans. ...

Low-Income Women Not Benefiting From Katrina Recovery Work
FOX News - USA
NEW ORLEANS — Low-income women have been slow to return to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina and those who have returned are not benefiting from the ...
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Reflecting on lessons storm taught about race and poverty
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
... Images of African-Americans trapped in flooded New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina will long haunt this country. Crying for help ...
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Who's to Blame for State of New Orleans?
Forbes - USA
In many ways, New Orleans is a huge crime scene, with bodies and ... city with large swathes still uninhabited - or uninhabitable - a year after Hurricane Katrina? ...
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Farewell, My New Friend
YourHub.com - Denver,CO,USA
... When I went to New Orleans, I didn't know what Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, the flooding, and the looting left, or what I could expect. ...

New Orleans port regaining most of pre-Katrina cargo
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Port of New Orleans, which sustained heavy damage from Hurricane Katrina, had regained nearly 94 percent of its pre-storm cargo by the ...
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Chely Wright Brings The Sound Of Music To New Orleans
Top40-Charts.com - Ricking,NY,USA
... Wright paid a special visit to Holy Cross School in New Orleans this past ... high school bands after it suffered severe damage when Hurricane Katrina ravaged the ...

Dishonest Contractors Running Rampant in New Orleans Area
Newhouse News Service (NNS) - USA
... across the country have descended on the New Orleans area in ... More than 4,500 new licenses have been issued by ... Before Katrina, the office issued about 1,900 new ...

Suit Over New Orleans Storm Victim’s Death
New York Times - United States
... year-old woman who died slumped in her wheelchair after Hurricane Katrina, an image ... Jr., accuses numerous state agencies and the City of New Orleans of gross ...
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NFL Preseason Preview - Dallas (1-0) At New Orleans (1-0)
WISC - Madison,WI,USA
... training camp more than 200 miles away in Jackson, MS, are playing their preseason home games away from New Orleans and the Hurricane Katrina-damaged Superdome ...

What It Means To Miss New Orleans
Broadcasting & Cable (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
... the New Orleans media community last week over the return of something as vital as water in their business: ratings. For the first time since Hurricane Katrina ...

Post-Katrina health crisis developing in New Orleans, experts say
The Tidings - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Although it could eventually lead to a more equitable and effective health care system in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city's already fragile ...
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National Guardsmen arrested in New Orleans robbery
Reuters - USA
... of 300 Guardsmen sent into New Orleans in June to help local police deal with rising crime as the city slowly recovers nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Mayor tells media to stick with New Orleans story
Indianapolis Star - United States
... passed since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, but the media must stay on top of the lingering story of suffering and hardship, New Orleans Mayor C ...
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Study Says Louisiana, New Orleans Business More Certain ...
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... team was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how economic geographies post Hurricane Katrina affect New Orleans business owners ...

UD students, alums help rebuild New Orleans homes
UDaily - Newark,DE,USA
... 04) have teamed up with residents of the badly hit Holly Grove neighborhood in New Orleans this summer to help rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. ...

2 Guardsmen Accused of Robbery in New Orleans
New York Times - United States
... same number of killings, 21, as in the months before Hurricane Katrina, when the ... Still, Governor Blanco has pledged to keep the troops in New Orleans past a ...

Bush fulfills few promises to Gulf Coast
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Nearly half of New Orleans was still under water when President Bush stood in the ... and lives that had been laid to waste two weeks before by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans mayor cites racism in hampering city's recovery
WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA
INDIANAPOLIS The mayor of New Orleans blames racism and government bureaucracy for hampering the city's ability to both weather Hurricane Katrina and recover ...
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08/18/2006 NOLA News

ANNUAL FESTIVAL BRINGS SOUNDS OF NEW ORLEANS TO SJ
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... recovering a semblance of its pre-Katrina vitality. ... While the New Orleans musicians probably won't dwell on ... concerts to raise funds for hurricane victims, a ...

“TAVIS SMILEY” IN NEW ORLEANS: Journalist takes cameras to ...
Eurweb.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... conversation, “Tavis Smiley” on PBS takes to the road to present a two-part perspective on New Orleans on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Step up to clear the stench in New Orleans
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
... Jackson was in New Orleans when he called my house Tuesday night. ... come to the Crescent City to mark the upcoming first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with "A ...

Immigrants' suit charges exploitation in New Orleans
Houston Chronicle - United States
NEW ORLEANS - Immigrant workers recruited from South America and the Dominican Republic after Hurricane Katrina sued a prominent hotelier Wednesday, saying ...
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Spike Lee's Katrina documentary stirs passions in New Orleans
CBC News - Canada
Spike Lee's documentary about the devastation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina premiered Wednesday evening at the New Orleans Arena before an audience of ...
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Catching up with New Orleans' preachers
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
It was almost one year ago that Hurricane Katrina (with a big assist from tired levees and a sleepwalking FEMA) changed New Orleans forever. ...

One year after Katrina, New Orleans Jews rebuilding
New Jersey Jewish Standard - Teaneck,NJ,USA
... The interior of Beth Israel Congregation, an Orthodox synagogue in New Orleans, which was damaged by 10 feet of water during Hurricane Katrina. ...
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The Big Easy's Next Test
TIME - USA
The New Orleans school system, which was widely viewed as among the nation's worst before Katrina, has undergone a complete overhaul since the hurricane raked ...
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Carnival Cruise Lines to base two ships in New Orleans
USA Today - USA
... LaGrange said three cruise lines will base four ships in New Orleans by fall 2007, a return to levels of operation before Hurricane Katrina struck last August. ...
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08/08/2006 NOLA News

Plan to get New Orleans courts moving
United Press International - USA
8 (UPI) -- New Orleans officials say they have a plan to get the city's ... 29, the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, if nothing was done to reduce the ...
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Southern decadence: Experience the rebirth of gay New Orleans
PlanetOut - San Francisco,CA,USA
New Orleans emerges from a sharp bend in the Mississippi River like a drag queen ... open all night, the heart of the city beats on post-Hurricane Katrina and is ...

In New Orleans, Each Resident Is Master of Plan to Rebuild
New York Times - United States
... a botched attempt to develop a comprehensive plan for New Orleans fell apart ... that are central to any effort to rebuild and recover after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Baptist volunteers make inroads in largely Catholic New Orleans
Associated Baptist Press - Jacksonville,FL,USA
... ABP) -- After serving the homeless for decades in New Orleans, Tobey Pitman ... But since Hurricane Katrina hit, the Baptist missionary has led volunteers to help ...

Return of New Orleans residents slows
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... data indicates less than 1.1 million people lived in the New Orleans metropolitan area in June, down from 1.5 million when Hurricane Katrina struck, the ...
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SOHH Exclusive: DJ K-Salaam Compares New Orleans Crisis To Israeli ...
SOHH - Jersey City,USA
... And he sees a similar disenfranchisement in New Orleans as a result of Hurricane Katrina. "In New Orleans the Black folks who lived there... ...

Public Schools Open In New Orleans
WSBtv.com - Atlanta,GA,USA
... ORLEANS, LA -- "Summer was boring" said one 12-year New Orleans boy happy to ... once considered to have the nation's worst, and that was before Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans schools open amid hope, confusion
The Argus - Fremont,CA,USA
NEW ORLEANS — Carrying a heavy book sack on his shoulders, 12-year-old ... Fischer, one of the city's low-performing schools before Hurricane Katrina, was among ...
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Freakonomics On Hurricane Katrina/New Orleans Flood
Donklephant - USA
1) How much of the damage/human toll is because of the hurricane per se versus the levees breaking? If we had perfect foresight, would ...

Blacks Share Katrina Weekend In New Orleans
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... the nation and the world to see that we in New Orleans know how to respectfully acknowledge our losses and suffering resulting from the Katrina disaster, and ...
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08/07/2006 NOLA News

New Orleans says fixing broken justice system
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... "It is not only New Orleans. It is this whole aftermath of Hurricane Katrina driven by a radically different drug economy," he said. ...
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NBA Expects All Hornets Home Games In New Orleans By '07
RealGM.com - IL,USA
... six home games for New Orleans in the upcoming season, with the other 35 in Oklahoma City, where the Hornets temporarily relocated after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Reform Jewish Leader Responds to New Orleans Mayor Comments ...
Religious Action Center (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... to the comments made by New Orleans Mayor Ray ... us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's ... yesterday, suggesting that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ...

First Wave of New Orleans Schools Open
Forbes - USA
... the city's low-performing schools before Hurricane Katrina, was among ... who have not returned since the hurricane. ... United Teachers of New Orleans criticized the ...
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Katrina's Vanishing Victims
FAIR - USA
It happened on the afternoon of September 1, three days after Hurricane Katrina pushed a wall of water onto the city of New Orleans. ...
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First wave of New Orleans schools open
MLive.com - MI,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Carrying a heavy book sack on his shoulders, 12-year ... Fischer, one of the city's low-performing schools before Hurricane Katrina, was among ...

It's Worse Than You Think
TIME - USA
... Eighteen months before Katrina, business leaders in New Orleans created an ... be in Baton Rouge, or perhaps Houston and Atlanta, thanks to the hurricane. ...
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Home Festivals New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Lives!
Jazz Police - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... After hurricane Katrina, Jazz Fest took an even greater meaning and urgency as a symbol of the rebirth of the great city of New Orleans. ...

New Orleans Summer Post Katrina In Slow Motion
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... year at this time, New Orleans was as hot as it gets. Movies were being made by the dozens. Even Mayor Nagin played a cameo role in a flick before Katrina hit. ...
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Ecological effects of Gulf Coast hurricanes
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA
... storm satellite imagery that suggests that Hurricane Katrina may have ... to have recovered to pre-Katrina conditions, in ... water pumped out of New Orleans and into ...
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New Orleans hotels swoon in post-K summer tourist doldrums
New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA
... down 26 percent from 38,300 pre-Katrina, said Darius ... Gulf Coast during the height of hurricane season ... now people are shying away from New Orleans, wondering if ...