Tuesday, August 08, 2006

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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