Monday, August 21, 2006

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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