New Orleans now: 'A Tale of Two Cities'
Derby Valley Gazette - Derby,CT,USA
These sections of New Orleans didn't suffer as much from the deadly wrath of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath as lower-lying parishes. ...
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Katrina's red tape
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Rebuilding New Orleans and other Gulf Coast cities will be enormously expensive, but if the country is in for a penny, it should be in for a pound. ...
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When Bowl Games Arrive, Eyes Will Be on New Orleans
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
In the immediate wake of Katrina, the Sugar Bowl in January 2006 was moved to Atlanta. This year’s game was moved back to New Orleans, its home since 1935, ...
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Pricey milk one more fact of life in post-Katrina New Orleans
Capital Press (subscription) - Salem,OR,USA
Since Katrina, the average price of a gallon of whole or 2 percent milk in New Orleans has been at or near the top of a federal list of prices for 30 major ...
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March draws 400 people, attention to struggling New Orleans region
Canoe.ca - Canada
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin led hundreds of marchers Saturday to the foundations and crumbling houses that ...
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New Orleans Hurricane Victim Poised for Comeback
New California Media - San Francisco,CA,USA
Jenkins returned to New Orleans in 1994 after her father died, and for four years prior to Katrina, she had been trying to put together a delicatessen. ...
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New Orleans Jazz Fest Gets Major Sponsor
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
Shell was a major sponsor of last year's Jazz Fest, the first since Hurricane Katrina, Davis likened Shell's support to putting a floundering goldfish back ...
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Showdown in New Orleans
Louisiana Weekly - New Orleans,LA,USA
They gave testimony as to the "Participation of Small Businesses in Hurricane Katrina Recovery Contracts". She and the other participating members of the ...
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Mayfield: New Orleans is still great place for musicians
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
The children's tent is back at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. An 8-year-old Chrishel Crawford couldn't ...
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New Orleans Jazz Fest-goers indulge in mouthwatering food favorites
International Herald Tribune - France
For some food providers, this Jazz Fest marked their first since Hurricane Katrina. A number of festival regulars said they were happy to see the return of ...
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Camellia Grill reflowers in New Orleans
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
The ownership has changed since Hurricane Katrina, but almost everything else is the same: the cholesterol-heavy diner menu, the Greek Revival architecture, ...
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Louisiana, New Orleans, US: FEMA Trailers For Sale For You
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
Given that the federal government has failed to address sustainable levee systems with Category 5 levee protection, those in New Orleans and its environs ...
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Jackson leads protest in New Orleans
United Press International - USA
... where a levee breach destroyed surrounding neighborhoods in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The marchers included New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and ...
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Slow recovery and broken promises in New Orleans
FinalCall.com - Chicago,IL,USA
The summit also included sessions on the education crisis in post-Katrina New Orleans, the use of tax incentives in rebuilding, and government and private ...
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Attorney: Creditors approve Entergy New Orleans plan
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- Creditors of Entergy New Orleans, the electricity and natural gas utility devastated by Hurricane Katrina, approved a bankruptcy ...
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Army Corps of Engineer is asked to explain award of New Orleans ...
Journal Times - Racine,WI,USA
After Katrina swamped about 80 percent of the city, Congress appropriated $5.7 billion to rebuild New Orleans' flood protection systems. Vitter and Sen. ...
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May 10: Kaiser to Release New Orleans Household Study on Katrina's ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
... house-to-house study of people living in the New Orleans area about residents' experiences and ongoing challenges in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans reaches pre-Katrina level of restaurants
Greater Baton Rouge Business Report - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
New Orleans now has the same number of restaurants open as it did pre-Katrina, reports New Orleans CityBusiness. The magazine says as of April 16 there were ...
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Contamination Rebounds in New Orleans Lakes After Flood Recedes
Bloomberg - USA
April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Half a year after flooding caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita receded, bacteria in New Orleans lakes and canals rebounded, ...
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Blanco's speech focuses on issues other than hurricane recovery
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
"If you listened to that speech, it's almost like Katrina and Rita didn't happen," said Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, chairman of the Louisiana ...
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Doctors at New Orleans-area hospital sue state over care for poor ...
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
29, 2005, hurricane closed the state-funded Charity Hospital in New Orleans. “This is severely straining our area emergency rooms, and the lack of proper ...
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US Government Blew Away Katrina Gifts For Louisiana, New Orleans ...
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
It seems that the wounds from the US Government’s miserable handling of Hurricane Katrina will never go away. This weekend, a shocking report shows that our ...
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New Orleans school head to step down
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
NEW ORLEANS — Barely a year after being given the helm of the city's beleaguered school system, the state-appointed superintendent announced Tuesday she ...
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Woman helps build new home for Katrina hurricane victim
Ballard News Tribune - Seattle,WA,USA
Reimer was out of town when the hurricane hit New Orleans on August 31, 2005 and did not see any of the television news reports. After living in Baton Rouge ...
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New Orleans School Head to Step Down
KOB.com - Albuquerque,NM,USA
Steve Monaghan, a teachers union leader, called Jarvis "capable, but in an impossible situation" in the aftermath of Katrina. ...
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Largest national hurricane planning exercise since Katrina begins
Picayune Item - Picayune,MS,USA
During the last exercise of this scale in 2004, emergency officials simulated what would happen if a large hurricane struck New Orleans. ...
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New Orleans Homecoming (for the Lucky Ones)
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
Jazzfest has long since become a local ritual itself, one that became more important after the hurricane made clear that New Orleans could not be taken for ...
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New Orleans editor speaks at DU: stormy journalism
YourHub.com - Denver,CO,USA
CNN had triumphantly declared that New Orleans had dodged the bullet. The French Quarter was dry and the worst of Hurricane Katrina appeared to be over. ...
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New Orleans school board rebuffs teachers' efforts to bargain
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
... New Orleans has become a battleground for a teachers union struggling to establish a voice in the post-Hurricane Katrina environment of private ...
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Louisiana State And Federal Officials Agree On Estimate Of State's ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Physician shortage: The shortage of physicians in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina -- "on top of fewer and overcrowded hospitals, lost or destroyed ...
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Kelley calls New Orleans seminary's recovery 'a miracle'
Florida Baptist Witness - Jacksonville,FL,USA
Kelley projected the eventual cost of Hurricane Katrina recovery for the seminary to be $55 million or more. "With insurance, the gifts of Southern Baptists ...
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Future of hurricane recovery aid uncertain
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
NEW ORLEANS - Congressional leaders vowed a fight, yet the fate of billions of dollars in hurricane recovery aid they consider key to helping restore the ...
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Head of New Orleans' state-run school system announces resignation ...
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
NEW ORLEANS – Barely a year after being given the helm of the city's beleaguered school system, the state-appointed superintendent announced Tuesday she ...
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Events picking up in New Orleans as city recovers from Katrina
International Herald Tribune - France
About 1800 restaurants — down from the pre-Katrina figure of 3414 — are open in the New Orleans metropolitan region, Weatherly said. ...
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New Orleans: The Slow Recovery
Valley Star (subscription) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
New Orleans residents have a choice when looking back at Hurricane Katrina and what it did to their city - they can dwell on the destruction and their anger ...
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NO, neighbors set new evacuation guidelines
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS — The city of New Orleans will order a mandatory evacuation if threatened this season by a hurricane of Category 3 strength or higher, ...
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Chris Watts: "New Orleans experiencing a lot of progress"
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
Thanks to Hurricane Katrina, my new life in the "Big Easy" was short-lived. My life experiences, however, were not. On Aug. 27, 2005, my Louisiana National ...
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Bankruptcy judge approves Entergy New Orleans’ plan
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
Entergy New Orleans, a small unit of Entergy Corp., filed for protection from creditors in October 2005, after Katrina and flooding resulting from breached ...
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Crews in New Orleans pulling up boats sunk by Katrina
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
NEW ORLEANS — A Florida contractor is fishing for boats that Hurricane Katrina deposited at the bottom of one of the city's largest marinas. ...
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New Orleans gets a soaking, but Jazz Fest keeps rocking
WALB-TV - Albany,GA,USA
Water rose several inches on Canal Street, which was hard-hit by flooding during Hurricane Katrina. That prompted restaurant staff to scurry about warning ...
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Edwards Blasts Bush Administration for 'Squandering' Foreign Aid ...
FOX News - USA
NEW ORLEANS — Presidential contender John Edwards lambasted the Bush administration Friday for reportedly "squandering" millions of dollars in aid offered ...
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Philly school exec tapped to lead New Orleans' state-run district
NEPA News - PA,USA
An administrator with a reputation for shaping up big-city schools was hired to lead New Orleans' beleaguered district as it recovers from Hurricane Katrina ...
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Almost all New Orleans public transit drivers call in sick
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
The commuter bus services between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, established after the hurricane, was not affected, Cook said. "We're trying to do as much as ...
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Philadelphia schools executive to lead New Orleans' state-run ...
WANE - Ft Wayne,IN,USA
... up big-city schools is heading to New Orleans. His job will be to help lead the city's beleaguered district as it recovers from Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Philly school exec headed to New Orleans
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... shaping up big-city schools was hired to lead New Orleans' beleaguered district as it recovers from Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana officials said Friday. ...
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New Orleans Jazz Fest performers help hurricane-stricken communities
International Herald Tribune - France
... both performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and giving back to a region still trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina 20 months ago. ...
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Democratic presidential candidates Clinton, Obama criticize ...
International Herald Tribune - France
... New Orleans. He called on the federal government to invest more money in the city's schools, saying they were neglected even before Hurricane Katrina. ...
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NEW ORLEANS: DNA samples identify Katrina victim ‘Will’
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) - Tacoma,WA,USA
A victim from Hurricane Katrina who was buried anonymously as “Will” to represent the will of the people to persevere has been identified through a DNA ...
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Study Finds Fecal Microbes High In New Orleans Sediments Following ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
In a new study documenting the microbial landscape of New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, scientists report that ...
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Veteran New Orleans musician wants the world to know that the ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, news media reports questioned whether the mass exodus of musicians from New Orleans would leave the city devoid of ...
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Wildlife is missing from New Orleans refuge
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
... New Orleans was set up. But a glimpse at the area today makes clear why waterfowl populations have been down by 75 percent since Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans Streets Flooded Reminder Hurricane Season Nearing
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
While it was not Katrina or Rita, the rain that hit New Orleans put key intersections of the city underwater and was a brutal reminder of how much pumping ...
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Critic of Corps of Engineers Says Levee Repairs for New Orleans ...
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
Erosion on a levee by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a canal that helped channel water into New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. By JOHN SCHWARTZ ...
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Connick, Legend at New Orleans Jazz Fest
The West Australian - Perth,Western Australia,Australia
... among the musicians performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and giving back to a region still trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans Falls in Top 25 Real Estate Markets Forecast
Fast Pitch! (press release) - USA
... is still experiencing a robust market in New Orleans with a healthy pace of sales in its recovery from the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, ...
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Clinton, Obama criticize federal government response to Katrina
ABC7Chicago.com - Chicago,IL,USA
While Clinton spoke of challenges facing mayors nationwide, she did not mention New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Obama mentioned him at the outset, saying Nagin ...
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For Katrina victims, financial pain endures
USA Today - USA
NEW ORLEANS — For Gloria Vallery, the 20 months since Hurricane Katrina have brought a succession of financial agonies. Too little insurance money to cover ...
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New Orleans-area Officials Pledge Better Evacuation Plans
Insurance Journal - San Diego,CA,USA
New Orleans' emergency operations chief promised recently that residents or stranded tourists who need help evacuating in advance of a hurricane will have ...
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Louisiana and New Orleans To Greensburg: We Understand
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
But, both events make us wonder if we are ready for the next big one to hit Louisiana in the form of a tropical storm or hurricane. If New Orleans could not ...
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Hurricane Katrina Damage Continues to Haunt New Orleans
Daily Nexus - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
Eighteen months ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. It has been estimated that recovery efforts will take close to 15 years to restore it to its ...
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Serious weaknesses found in repaired New Orleans levees
Facing South - Durham,NC,USA
With hurricane season less than a month away, experts from the United States and the Netherlands say flaws in New Orleans' repaired levee system could leave ...
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STARS HELP NEW ORLEANS REVIVAL
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
... and HARRY CONNICK JR have given a supportive hand to the rejuvenation of grief-stricken New Orleans, Louisiana, following 2005's Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Fury of Katrina lingers in New Orleans
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
WASHINGTON -- The fury of Hurricane Katrina still engulfs New Orleans, and Tulane University is in the middle of a fight over its aftermath. ...
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Hobby focuses on New Orleans devastation for Brophy student
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
7, 2007 01:13 PM Last spring, Logan Frye went to New Orleans to help clean up the wreckage left by Hurricane Katrina. The 17-year-old Brophy College ...
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Judge suspends prosecution for 98 unrepresented defendants in New ...
International Herald Tribune - France
Before the hurricane hit, three-quarters of the defenders' office's budget was financed by traffic court fines. That revenue dried up after Katrina ...
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Appeals court stops release of prisoners from New Orleans jail
International Herald Tribune - France
NEW ORLEANS: A US appellate court on Tuesday delayed the release of 20 prisoners from New Orleans-area jails who are awaiting trial. ...
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Heart and dreams of New Orleans still strong
Hot Springs Village Voice - Hot Springs,AR,USA
When hurricane Katrina hit, I was on assignment at Amelia Island Plantation near St. Augustine, Fla. Watching news of the approaching storm on television, ...
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City still vulnerable
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
Just weeks before the start of a new hurricane season, New Orleans' hurricane levees are incomplete leaving the city at risk from even small hurricanes. ...
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Video: Longines and Harry Connick, Jr. Unite To Build Homes in New ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
... areas by the flooding following Hurricane Katrina. The Village, which will be surrounded by 100 additional NOAHH (New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity) ...
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Entergy New Orleans emerges from bankruptcy after being hit hard ...
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
Entergy New Orleans filed for bankruptcy protection weeks after Katrina hit in August 2005 and left it with few customers and extensive damage, ...
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Katrina Hit Blacks Harder Than Whites, Study Finds
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
NEW ORLEANS, May 9 -- The catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina has cost countless people here their homes, their jobs or their health. But according to a survey ...
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Jazz Fest restores sense of pre-Katrina well-being
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
As the second New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival since Hurricane Katrina wound down over the weekend, Ben Wilson was a contented man. ...
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Hard times in the Big Easy: Two years after Katrina, city vehicle ...
Automotive Body Repair - Home Page -
Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the technicians who keep the city’s emergency vehicles running are still working in the dark ...
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Emeril Lagasse gives boost to New Orleans culinary, arts programs
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA
They're the future of New Orleans," said Lagasse, after announcing the grants at one of his two New Orleans restaurants. Among other things, the grants will ...
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BKN Hornets New Orleans
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -The New Orleans Hornets should be able to return by Aug. 1 to the suburban practice courts they used before Hurricane Katrina, ...
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New Leadership Vows to Make New Orleans Schools a Model
Education Week News - Bethesda,MD,USA
New Orleans School Board President Phyllis Landrieu, left, Gov. Kathleen Blanco, and Paul Vallas listen to speakers at Martin Luther King School in New ...
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New Orleans levees still incomplete
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
Officials with the Army Corps of Engineers told The New Orleans Times-Picayune that while the 2007 hurricane season is about to begin, the Louisiana city`s ...
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Major House-To-House Survey Finds New Orleans Area Residents Hit ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
According to researchers, the survey's findings may understate the consequences of Hurricane Katrina because the city currently has about half of its ...
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Father, daughter volunteer in New Orleans clinic
Concord Journal - Concord,MA,USA
The same group of volunteers from International Medical Alliance has been in New Orleans since the hurricane, said Thomas. ...
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New Orleans project backed by Brad Pitt unveiled
TV Guide - USA
The outlines of an eco-friendly residential development backed by Pitt were sketched on Thursday in a New Orleans neighborhood hit hard by Hurricane Katrina ...
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New Orleans Colleges Expect Surge in New Students
AACRAO Transcript - Washington,DC,USA
Teamer noted that the enrollment management staff members who would encourage students to deposit early were cut after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Foundation Releases Stark Report on New Orleans
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
The Kaiser Family Foundation today released a stark snapshot of life for residents of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Corps of Engineers defends New Orleans pump contract
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
The pumps proved to be defective, putting New Orleans at risk of a second flooding after Hurricane Katrina. Last year's mild hurricane season, however, ...
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Louisiana, New Orleans Prepares For Hurricane Evacuations
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS, LA (May 10, 2007) –If there is any lessons learned from Katrina, it is critical that the Mayor Nagin and the City Council has a ...
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New Orleans, Ravaged by Katrina, Hit Again by Subprime Crisis
Bloomberg - USA
May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Retired New Orleans cook Hattie Warren survived Hurricane Katrina. Now, at 82, she is struggling with the $100000 subprime mortgage ...
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Locals are touched by hurricane victims
Cannon Falls Beacon - Cannon Falls,MN,USA
"She'd worked for NASA and moved to New Orleans for a new career opportunity and had just moved into this house. But Hurricane Katrina struck before she had ...
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New Orleans project backed by Brad Pitt unveiled
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
Pitt said the Holy Cross project was aimed at poor people, many of whom have been unable to return to New Orleans after fleeing Katrina. ...
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Sonoman reaches out to Katrina's victims
Sonoma Index-Tribune - Sonoma,CA,USA
"We sent clarinets, trumpets, saxophones and various miscellaneous equipment through the New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund, at www.nomhrf.org," ...
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State Farm to reopen 350 hurricane claims
Bloomington Pantagraph - Bloomington,IL,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. has agreed to reopen and possibly pay claims for about 350 policyholders in Louisiana whose homes were ...
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Local Artists Repair Holy Statue Nearly Destroyed in Hurricane Katrina
MyFox Philadelphia - Philadelphia,PA,USA
But in this case anyway, it seems that the Archangel Gabriel was no match for Katrina. Once a fixture at the New Orleans church that bore his name, ...
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Correction: BC-New Orleans Schools story
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
... in figures for the Louisiana Recovery School District, the state entity that took over dozens of New Orleans public schools after Hurricane Katrina.
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New Orleans: Rebuilding a Cultural Economy
TheStreet.com - USA
A study commissioned by Landrieu, released in February, showed that close to two-thirds of New Orleans's musicians have returned since Katrina, ...
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Katrina lawyer suspended in La.; Can still practice in fed court
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A key lawyer involved in suing the federal government over damage caused by levee breaches during Hurricane Katrina has been suspended ...
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New Orleans ravaged anew by subprime mortgage woes
Blogging Stocks - USA
Meanwhile, retired New Orleans cook Hattie Warren, who survived Hurricane Katrina, is now at 82, struggling with the $100000 subprime mortgage she took out ...
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Racial Divide Persists in New Orleans' Katrina Recovery
NewsHour - USA
More than a year after Hurricane Katrina inundated the city, New Orleans residents remain economically and psychologically affected by the storm, ...
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Manzano senior's resilience after Katrina earns him respect ...
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
Williams and his family moved to Albuquerque after Hurricane Katrina forced them from their home in New Orleans in 2005. He found his old shoes right where ...
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Students making deposits increasing
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
The picture, though upbeat, provides an incomplete picture of post-Katrina progress in the New Orleans area. Comparable information was not available from ...
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Cisneros' firm redoing units hit by Katrina
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA
Henry Cisneros' housing company, CityView, announced its redevelopment of a Hurricane Katrina-damaged apartment building near New Orleans. ...
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Raking muck in a New Orleans battered but alive
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
While a tornado may destroy a house and leave the one next door unscathed, Hurricane Katrina destroyed a vast swath of civilization. ...
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Shell prepares to weather this year's storms
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
With its headquarters in New Orleans out of action for several months after Katrina, Shell moved some 400 of its 1000-strong workforce to the town of Robert ...
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Deposits are up at colleges in New Orleans
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA
... in the number of students who have made financial commitments to come to New Orleans less than two years after Hurricane Katrina blasted the city. ...
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Former FEMA Head Says President Failed Americans During Katrina
WCSH-TV - Portland,ME,USA
"There are still people out there who want to blame me for everything that went wrong in New Orleans," Mike Brown said. "(But) this administration turned a ...
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Wedding insurance covers calamities -- and cold feet
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
Since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans wedding planner Jennie Keller requires every couple to buy insurance. She once required it just for couples marrying ...
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Editorial: Better Flood Control
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
In its evaluation of the performance of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System during Hurricane Katrina, the Corps wrote that ...
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Day care sorely lacking in area
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
Employee credentials may be even worse in New Orleans since the hurricane. "You find yourself hiring someone you wouldn't have hired pre-Katrina," said ...
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Survey: Orleans dissatisfied with government
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS — Dissatisfaction with government rivals crime as the biggest concern of people in New Orleans more than 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, ...
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Hurricane Katrina’s lexical storm
Massey News - New Zealand
They examine how “refugee” appeared in the Times’ coverage of the Atlantic hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005, how it positioned those that it ...
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Labor shortage hits entire metro area
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
Although Hurricane Katrina's impact varied in many ways from parish to parish, businesses throughout the New Orleans area are coping with the same problem: ...
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BEN WINDHAM: Perservation Hall lives up to its name
Tuscaloosa News (subscription) - Tuscaloosa,AL,USA
He and his wife, Sarah, helped organize the New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund, which has distributed more than a half-million dollars. ...
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Garrett schools honor New Orleans band
Cumberland Times-News - Cumberland,MD,USA
... damaged by Hurricane Katrina and with the lack of tourism in the Louisiana city, the band wants to show that New Orleans, while changed, is still there. ...
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Pitt's praise for New Orleans
ITV.com - UK
Then they go on their way, very friendly." Pitt has also committed to rebuilding the areas of the city hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina.
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Junior year: Katrina, charity and change
Student Life - St-Louis,MO,USA
... the country in a weeklong spring break trip to New Orleans where they volunteered to help rebuild broken homes for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Kids put forth a running effort to help New Orleans school
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
And when they finished, they had raised approximately $40000 to help a New Orleans elementary school rebuild from Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Beth Ashley: Guide Dogs still a light of hope for Katrina victims
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
Mary Badinger, 59, of Chalmette, La., a suburb of New Orleans, was at ground zero when Katrina hit, submersing it with 5 feet of water. ...
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New Orleans mayor seeks help from state to handle mental health ...
International Herald Tribune - France
NEW ORLEANS: The mayor of New Orleans on Monday asked the governor of Louisiana for help addressing a growing psychiatric health crisis in a city still ...
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Surge protection
New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA
Government and business officials say Hurricane Katrina taught them valuable lessons. They say emergency generators are fully charged for the 2007 hurricane ...
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Toussaint explores life outside Big Easy Katrina forced him out of ...
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
Before Hurricane Katrina, his live performances were almost exclusively limited to his annual show at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, ...
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Gobble's Restaurant brings a little bit of New Orleans to Elizabethton
Elizabethton Star - Elizabethton,TN,USA
After Hurricane Katrina, Midgett and her husband left New Orleans. "We were trying to figure out what we should do," Midgett said. ...
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New Orleans Neighborhood Rescues Itself
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Pablovich, an entrepreneur who lived in a different part of New Orleans before Katrina, bought a bungalow on the street from an elderly resident after the ...
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My Morning Jacket man for New Orleans benefit
NME.com - UK
... Girls have all been confirmed to for 'Musicians Bringing Home Musicians II' a show to benefit the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Trade Groups Seek Restored Air Traffic Control at New Orleans ...
CanadianBusiness.com - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Nearly 21 months since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Lakefront Airport is still without a working air traffic control tower, ...
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• Story of New Orleans pets begs for attention in film
MLive.com - MI,USA
Tom McPhee went to New Orleans to help rescue human victims of Hurricane Katrina. He emerged with a special interest in animals impacted by the 2005 ...
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In divided New Orleans
International Herald Tribune - France
When President George W. Bush spoke to the nation soon after Hurricane Katrina, he was resolute that the city would be rebuilt. "We will do what it takes," ...
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New Orleans Benefit
antiMUSIC.com - CA,USA
Prior to the event, a group of musicians will tour New Orleans on Saturday to see the damage left by Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding that still needs ...
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New Orleans Chief Wants to Keep National Guard Longer
Officer.com - USA
The department has far fewer officers than before the 2005 hurricane - about 1400, compared to 1668 before Katrina, Riley said, and the gap widens when sick ...
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Recovery Leads to Recognition for New Orleans Based Advertising ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
The Department of Homeland Security awards New Orleans advertising agency for Post-Katrina Media Communication Campaign. New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) May 15, ...
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Poll says 1/3 of New Orleans wants to call it quits
Louisiana Weekly - New Orleans,LA,USA
The New Orleans Metro area has lost nearly 25% of its population since Katrina, and Howell speculated that the effects of "social networking", ...
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Teachers Wanted as New Orleans Students Return
NPR - USA
But in others, pre-Katrina problems have been magnified by the educational storm that followed the hurricane. At Walter Cohen High, one of five new schools ...
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Author Douglas Brinkley leaving New Orleans to teach at Rice
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
The book documented the struggle of New Orleans residents, many of them poor and black, to get help in the chaotic days after Katrina flooded nearly 80 ...
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Capital One plans new drive-up branch in Uptown New Orleans
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
The site is currently occupied by a Rite Aid drugstore that never reopened after Hurricane Katrina and is being demolished. Capital One plans to begin ...
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'Suits for Servants' arrive in New Orleans
BP News - Nashville,TN,USA
After Hurricane Katrina, Tatum made sure that every seminary faculty member and several fulltime staff members received a new suit, sport coat and slacks. ...
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Sun. May 20 New Haven Forum: New Orleans and Cuba -
Party for Socialism and Liberation - USA
Find out how in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina flood victims continue to be left without housing, jobs and social services. ...
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Billboard Bits: New Orleans Benefit, Siren Fest, Dax Riggs
AND - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
... Coalition and Air Traffic Control, will benefit Sweet Home New Orleans, which is assisting New Orleans residents with housing needs post-Hurricane Katrina.
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New Orleans' Population Tracked By Postman
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- In the ongoing effort to figure how many people are returning to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, a nonprofit group released statistics ...
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Pilots at New Orleans airport say lingering hurricane damage ...
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
After the hurricane, controllers at the larger Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport took over monitoring planes at Lakefront, but radar cannot pick up the ...
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Another Breakdown in New Orleans
TIME - USA
For decades, everybody in New Orleans knew the drill, from police and emergency medical responders to the patients who managed to get there on their own. ...
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Report: New Orleans High In Post-Katrina Stress
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
On Monday, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin sent a letter to Governor Blanco urging that Louisiana restore psychiatric beds that were lost due to Hurricane ...
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Post-Traumatic Stress Spikes In New Orleans
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
Researchers said that Hurricane Katrina was one of the most significant natural disasters in US history. The event exposed thousands of people to death, ...
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'K-Ville' Set in Post-Katrina New Orleans
MyFox Kansas City - Kansas City,MO,USA
NEW YORK -- Fox will set a police drama in post-Katrina New Orleans next fall and turn Fridays into music night with the "American Idol" spinoff that tries ...
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Signs of revival in a sea of ruin
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
It's not easy to grasp the enormity of the disaster that befell the New Orleans region when Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed the low-lying city's ring of ...
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Billboard invites return to New Orleans
WDAM-TV - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
The city of New Orleans has started a major billboard campaign around the country, trying to get Hurricane Katrina evacuees to return to the Big Easy. ...
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LA/SPCA opens new facility in New Orleans
Disaster News Network - USA
"For many years, years pre-dating Hurricane Katrina, the animal lovers of the Greater New Orleans Area have dreamed of building a facility where homeless, ...
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Hopes and fears greet visitors to a resurgent New Orleans
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and drove half its citizens into an exile from which they've yet ...
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A New Orleans Adventure
Observer News - Ruskin,FL,USA
Although we were excited to explore a new city, the images we recalled from Hurricane Katrina made our trip into the city bittersweet. ...
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La. senator: GAO found pumps along New Orleans canals were rushed ...
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
The pumps were rushed into operation before the June 1 start of the 2006 hurricane season. The previous year, Hurricane Katrina inundated 80 percent of the ...
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Fox Adds Bickering Newscasters, Post-Katrina New Orleans, and The ...
TV with MeeVee - Burlingame,CA,USA
The drama K-Ville explores life in the New Orleans Police Department in the days following Hurricane Katrina. The heavy drama will follow Prison Break on ...
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Storm Season Stirs Up Levee Fears in New Orleans
NPR - USA
All Things Considered, May 18, 2007 · Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, residents are worried that the city's levees and pumps are ...
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Series Set In Post-Katrina New Orleans
TheShowBuzz - New York,NY,USA
(AP) Fox will set a police drama in post-Katrina New Orleans next fall and turn Fridays into music night with the "American Idol" spinoff that tries to ...
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New Orleans hurricane refugee named Teacher of the Year
Valley News Network - Temecula,CA,USA
Karen McKinney, Sam’s Club marketing team leader said they didn’t know about her losses in Hurricane Katrina. They chose her because of all she does for her ...
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E-Opinion: New Orleans needs help caring for mental patients
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA
... New Orleans provide care for mental patients. Mayor Ray Nagin says there is an urgent need for 100 mental health beds lost during Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Uniform pass system to be used during evacuations
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
Terry Ebbert, New Orleans' director of homeland security, said he imagines parishes will have different timelines for inviting each set of permit holders ...
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Corps: Close Channel Blamed for Flooding
Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls,ID,USA
... channel blamed for much of the flooding from Hurricane Katrina. The announcement at a meeting in Chalmette, a refinery town just outside New Orleans, ...
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Corps OKs closing channel blamed for Katrina flooding
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- The Army Corps of Engineers says it wants to build an earthen dam to plug a navigation channel blamed for much of the flooding during ...
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Hillary Clinton Makes New Orleans, Gulf Coast Campaign Issue
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
More importantly, Clinton by the sheer magnitude of her presence has helped put New Orleans into the national debate where it should be. ...
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Clinton: 'Obligation' to Aid New Orleans
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
Katrina struck New Orleans and the Mississippi coast on Aug. 29, 2005, flooding 80 percent of the city. Hurricane Rita struck about a month later in ...
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Nursing home blames government for Katrina deaths
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
NEW ORLEANS — An attorney for the owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath says his clients have a right to present ...
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Fox plans 'Idol' spinoff, cop series set in post-Katrina New Orleans
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson,KY,USA
NEW YORK Fox will set a police drama in post-Katrina New Orleans next fall and turn Fridays into music night with the "American Idol" spinoff that tries to ...
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Rebuilding New Orleans is an 'American obligation:' Clinton
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that rebuilding New Orleans is an "American obligation" the Bush administration has not met since Hurricane Katrina ...
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Funny thing is it's no joke to New Orleans
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- The evil eye of Katrina focused on Louisiana a year and nine months ago, bringing flood waters, devastation and death to New Orleans. ...
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New doctors told of courage tested during Katrina
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA
She was a teaching physician assigned to the infectious-disease ward of New Orleans' Charity Hospital in August 2005 when the monster hurricane hit. ...
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Hurricane season looms, New Orleans worries
Zee News - Noida,India
New Orleans, May 20: In a New Orleans still recovering from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the city safety plan for the next storm can be summed up best in two ...
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New Orleans icon plays for 1st time since Katrina
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
... crowd of hundreds in a New Orleans nightclub Saturday, marking the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's first public performance since Hurricane Katrina. ...
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VU students to help out in New Orleans
nwitimes.com - Munster,IN,USA
The visit is part of a continued relief effort in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which fueled existing problems in the city's legal system when it ran ...
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Harry Connick Jr. offers audience a taste of New Orleans
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA
It wasn’ta benefit for Katrina victims, but it featured New Orleans music, much of it from his recent top-of-the-jazz charts album, “Oh, My NOLA.” ...
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Corps Plans to Close La. Ship Channel Blamed for Katrina Flooding
Insurance Journal - San Diego,CA,USA
... said it wants to build a $50 million earthen dam to plug a New Orleans-area ship channel blamed for much of the flooding from Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Witness: Attacker pondered Katrina gang
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... while dressed as a firefighter hoped to go to New Orleans and lead a gang of angry Hurricane Katrina survivors, a psychologist testified Monday. ...
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Nike donates $1 million in shoes to New Orleans kids
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
... says it's important the needs of New Orleans and particularly its children are not forgotten as the city continues to recover from Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Regis, Kelly live in New Orleans
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... daytime talk show to New Orleans over the weekend, helped assemble playground equipment Monday at an elementary school damaged by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Former US President Jimmy Carter and Volunteers Join Habitat for ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Habitat for Humanity's hurricane response program was put in place immediately after Hurricane Katrina and then expanded after Hurricane Rita to help ...
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Quality of life suffering in New Orleans area
New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA
... percent of people in the New Orleans area have seen their quality of life deteriorate in at least one of seven critical areas since Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Fats Domino Returns to New Orleans Stage for First Post-Katrina ...
Rolling Stone - USA
But this past Saturday, the 79-year-old Domino returned to the stage for the first time since his rescue from Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters. ...
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Howard Coeds Helping in New Orleans Get an Earful on the Racial ...
Black America Web - Dallas,Tx,USA
More than 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, Clarke’s feelings were echoed by other frustrated black residents of New Orleans during a recent visit by ...
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New Orleans worries as hurricane season looms
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
NEW ORLEANS: In a New Orleans still recovering from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the city safety plan for the next storm can be summed up best in two words: ...
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Regis and Kelly go 'Live' in New Orleans
Bryan College Station Eagle - Bryan-College Station,TX,USA
... their daytime talk show to New Orleans this weekend, helped assemble playground equipment Monday at an elementary school damaged by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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NOBTS sends forth another 'Katrina Class'
BP News - Nashville,TN,USA
He described the tense hours he spent waiting for information about New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina as he sat in a hotel room in Birmingham, Ala., ...
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New Orleans city planners approve rebuilding plan
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
... saw it as an imperfect starting point to charting the recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans, nearly 21 months after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Jazz legend Allen Toussaint talks about life after Hurricane Katrina
this is hampshire.net - Winchester,Hampshire,UK
I'm in New Orleans every chance I get. If I hear about a flat tyre, I go and see about it!" One thing the hurricane did reinforce was the primary position ...
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Defense attorneys urge dropping charges against New Orleans ...
International Herald Tribune - France
NEW ORLEANS: Charges against the owners of a suburban New Orleans nursing home where 35 residents died during Hurricane Katrina should be dismissed because ...
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Fats Domino Plays Hometown of New Orleans Once More
Soul Shine - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
Rock 'n' roll legend Fats Domino played his first show since Hurricane Katrina in his hometown of New Orleans this past Saturday. ...
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Houston, New Orleans police say I-10 a corridor for drug trafficking
FOX11AZ.com (subscription) - Tucson,AZ,USA
The city of Houston provided shelter for about 200000 evacuees during Hurricane Katrina. And according to police there, the storm also opened the door for ...
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Historic New Orleans black college lags in storm recovery
AXcess News - Georgetown,KY,USA
Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, Lezli Baskerville, president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher ...
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New Orleans Hit With Flooding With Hurricane Season Pending
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
With hurricane season only one week away, the New Orleans has been hit with a double dose of bad news. The National Hurricane Service warned on Tuesday that ...
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Guerrilla Reconstruction in New Orleans
Infoshop News - USA
A full year after Hurricane Katrina, 73000 New Orleans residents remained encamped in FEMA trailer parks, an aluminum gulag spread all the way to Texas. ...
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Talk show hosts help build playground
The West Australian - Perth,Western Australia,Australia
Talk show hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa helped assemble playground equipment at a New Orleans elementary school damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. ...
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Evacuating New Orleans: LSU and Los Alamos team up
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
"Because of his work after Ivan, the Katrina vehicular evacuation was the largest, most successful evacuation in New Orleans B and possibly US B history," ...
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Dillard University seeks reconstruction assistance
Worldwide Faith News (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The United Methodist-related university in New Orleans sustained massive damage when Hurricane Katrina roared across the Gulf Coast almost two years ago. ...
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Waiting for another New Orleans
Needham Times - Needham,MA,USA
Joe and Emelda Clements, who have lived at Needham’s Avery Crossing since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, are still waiting to return home. ...
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US Coast Guard in New Orleans Prepares for Hurricane Season
Voice of America - USA
It has been nearly two years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and much of the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf coasts. Some US federal agencies came ...
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Congress passes spending for hurricane aid
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA
... infrastructure - something Louisiana and New Orleans, particularly, had pushed as a way to help speed the sluggish recovery from Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New book investigates Katrina disaster
Facing South - Durham,NC,USA
For City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Hurricane Katrina, the Center commissioned seven authors to investigate the storm's aftermath in the Big Easy ...
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Hurricane Katrina 'transplant' graduates UT with honors
Cookeville Herald Citizen - Cookeville,TN,USA
KNOXVILLE -- When Hurricane Katrina hit, Erin Moore fled the University of New Orleans with a backpack containing two bottles of water, some saltine crackers ...
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New Orleans Area Events: Margarita Darling
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
Fats took the stage before a sold-out crowd in his first public appearance since Hurricane Katrina. Dressed in a snappy white jacket, the 79-year old New ...
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New Orleans Legend Al "Carnival Time" Johnson and a Guilloteen's ...
Houston Press - Houston,TX,USA
Like most Hurricane Katrina refugees, Al 'Carnival Time' Johnson is working hard to get back to New Orleans. Today, the song ranks with the Hawketts' "Mardi ...
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James Blood Ulmer: Bad Blood in the City of New Orleans
jambands.com - New York,NY,USA
RR: Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions is about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. How did you come up with the material for the ...
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1 problem pump, but corps says system ready for hurricane season
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- A drainage pump, one of 34 under investigation for allegedly being faulty when they were installed before the start of last year's hurricane ...
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Post Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans HBCUs Invest in Better ...
Diverse - Fairfax,VA,USA
Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters demolished much of New Orleans, officials at the city's hard hit historically Black universities are ...
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Katrina Aftermath Series to Air on PBS
WTOP - Washington,DC,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Oscar-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme didn't know what he was going to do with 200 hours of footage of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, ...
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Katrina aftermath series to air on PBS
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
About 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded by Katrina, and many neighborhoods, such as the Lower 9th Ward, have been slow to recover. ...
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21 Months After Katrina, New Orleans Still Plagued by Illness
Voice of America - USA
She says she hopes studies like hers can lead to better-informed public health policies in response to disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
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Katrina Aftermath Series to Air on PBS
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- Oscar-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme didn't know what he was going to do with 200 hours of footage of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, ...
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Corps: Tests Find 1 Faulty Pump In New Orleans
KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ One of 34 drainage pumps under investigation for possibly being faulty when they were installed before the start of last year's hurricane ...
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New Orleans Katrina Memorial Proposed
TIME - USA
(NEW ORLEANS) -- Tucked inside a $14.4 billion blueprint for the rebuilding of New Orleans is a proposal for a Hurricane Katrina monument on a grand, ...
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Terence Blanchard's 'A Tale Of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina ...
Top40-Charts.com - Ricking,NY,USA
New Orleans, Louisiana (Top40 Charts/ Conway Studios/ Studio X) - Terence Blanchard's A Tale Of God's Will (A Requiem For Katrina), a beautifully haunting ...
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Hurricane aid measures were included in war funding bill
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA
... infrastructure -- something Louisiana and New Orleans, particularly, had pushed as a way to help speed the sluggish recovery from Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Disaster draws New Orleans and Nagapattinam together
Mangalorean.com - Mangalore,India
With a short film on the August 2005 Katrina hurricane, they emphasized that in some aspects the Katrina-inflicted damages were of a more lasting kind than ...
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Millions in aid New Orleans banked on to help rebuild in doubt
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
Money has been a major issue in New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina, which hit in August 2005. The cash-strapped city has been relying, in part, ...
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Police investigate 2 new killings in New Orleans
International Herald Tribune - France
But New Orleans is in a different situation than other cities: it's still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, which hit 21 months ago, and trying to recruit ...
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New Orleans hurricane pump found faulty
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
Jeffrey Bedey, the corps commander overseeing levee reconstruction after Hurricane Katrina caused major flooding in 2005, said that the problem forced the ...
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New Orleans: A City Gets to Its Feet, Slowly
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans, the images of people clinging to their rooftops and waving for help that came too late won't ...
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For New Orleans, a Katrina memorial on 'Homeric' scale
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
The idea is to honor Katrina's victims and the spirit of New Orleans, and also as a tourist attraction. But with many sections of the city still in shambles ...
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Documenting perseverance
Orange County Register - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
Schroder's documentary of his recent volunteer work in New Orleans captures the devastation that still persists after Hurricane Katrina and how people are ...
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Insurers warned of severe storm season
Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
More than 1500 people lost their lives as a result of Hurricane Katrina, making it the third deadliest storm in US history. Around 2500 died in Florida in ...
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New Orleans police investigate two killings
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
But New Orleans is in a different situation than others cities: It's still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, which hit 21 months ago, and trying to recruit ...
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Katrina evacuees thriving in Waterloo
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA
They moved to Waterloo on the suggestion of Iowans volunteering in New Orleans after the hurricane. Later, Ruth's father, Lester, and his wife, Georgetta, ...
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When Will the Super Bowl Return to New Orleans?
AOL SPORTS - New York,NY,USA
The return of the Saints to New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was the feel-good story of the NFL season, but it was probably an ...
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Musician helping concert in New Orleans
United Press International - USA
NEW ORLEANS, May 27 (UPI) -- Musicians Bringing Musicians Home II kicked it in New Orleans Sunday, raising money for Hurricane Katrina survivors. ...
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New Orleans pumps to be fixed ahead of hurricanes, engineers say
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- One of 34 drainage pumps under investigation for possibly being faulty when they were installed before the start of last year's hurricane ...
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Expected economic boom fails to unfold post-Katrina
New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA
The New Orleans Effect showed negative growth, or a drag on the economy, immediately following hurricanes Katrina and Rita for the remainder of 2005 ranging ...
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New England Patriots player Marquise Hill's body found after jet ...
CBC News - Canada
"From what I hear he's done a lot to help with things after Katrina and I know he had a great passion for the city of New Orleans," said former LSU ...
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Demme's New Orleans profiles to air
Orange County Register - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
... shot 200 hours of footage of residents of New Orleans' devastated Lower 9th Ward, following their journeys for more than a year after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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FEMA Eases Up on Demanding Student Repayments
Black College Wire - Washington,DC,USA
The University of New Orleans had a pre-Katrina enrollment of 17000. Now the school has 10000 to 11000 full-time graduate and undergraduate students. ...
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Can Science Outwit Storms Like Katrina?
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
After the New Orleans hurricane protection system failed under the onslaught of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Army Corps of Engineers rethought the way ...
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Developers push projects in New Orleans
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
Work continues on the Hyatt Hotel in New Orleans, Tuesday, May 22, 2007. Many of the Hyatt's windows were blown out by Hurricane Katrina and the hotel is ...
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Developers Push Projects in New Orleans
WCIV - Mt. Pleasant,SC,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Lured by congressionally authorized tax credits and other financial incentives after Hurricane Katrina, a procession of developers ...
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Johnnie Cochran's firm reopens in New Orleans
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
NEW ORLEANS - The law firm started by Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. has re-opened a New Orleans office that was moved to Alabama after Hurricane Katrina struck in ...
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Should $7 Billion for New Orleans Be A Secret?
Realty Times - TX,USA
When last we left off with New Orleans it was recovering from Katrina, the killer hurricane that inundated much of the city in 2005. The devastation in New ...
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Johnnie Cochran's firm reopens in New Orleans
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- The law firm started by Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. has re-opened a New Orleans office that was moved to Alabama after Hurricane Katrina struck in ...
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Visit New Orleans, help with healing process of city
USA Today - USA
But Hurricane Katrina pushed a foot of water inside our beautiful home and another 6 feet of water into the street. Photographs simply don't do the damage ...
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Redevelopment board seeks direction in post-Katrina New Orleans
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- As Mayor Ray Nagin prepares to deliver his first State of the City address since Hurricane Katrina Wednesday, an agency key to implementing ...
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James Lee Burke's new short story collection shows author at his best
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
Meanwhile, Burke is not done with Katrina. "The Tin Roof Blowdown," a crime novel that will be published in July, unfolds in New Orleans in the aftermath of ...
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Nagin: New Orleans on road to recovery, but still needs help
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- Mayor Ray Nagin, in his first State of the City address since Hurricane Katrina, said New Orleans is on the road to recovery but called on ...
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Coroner: Pats Player Drowned, Had Head Wound
More TV 32.com - Tampa,FL,USA
Hill had just rebuilt his mother Sherry's New Orleans home, which was nearly destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. "From what I hear, he's done a lot to help with ...
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Expected economic boom fails to unfold post-Katrina
Greater Baton Rouge Business Report - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS - Immediately after Hurricane Katrina, national experts predicted an economic boom for Louisiana as a massive recovery and rebuilding effort ...
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New Orleans finds power in unity
Kansas.com - KS,USA
The baseball team, with 38 on its roster, moved to Las Cruces, NM, a former Sun Belt member, in the fall of 2005 after the hurricane devastated New Orleans. ...
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New Orleans high-rise recovery in holding pattern
Ontario Argus Observer - Ontario,OR,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- Lured by congressionally authorized tax credits and other financial incentives after Hurricane Katrina, a procession of developers announced ...
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Many Hurricane Katrina evacuees still unemployed
International Herald Tribune - France
HOUSTON: Nineteen months after Hurricane Katrina sent evacuees from New Orleans streaming into Houston, more than 5000 heads of households among them are ...
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New Orleans Redevelopment Authority In Disarray
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin prepares to deliver his first State of the City address since Hurricane Katrina, an agency key to implementing ...
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Trump steams ahead but most New Orleans high-rises on hold as ...
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
NEW ORLEANS-AP. Lured by congressionally authorized tax credits and other financial incentives after Hurricane Katrina, a procession of developers announced ...
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Rising above post-storm struggles, University of New Orleans ...
SI.com - USA
Yet, despite losing players who decided post-Katrina New Orleans wasn't for them, despite spending several months like vagabonds in Las Cruces, NM, ...
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House rejects bids to add money to budget for hurricane recovery
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
... state cash to help the New Orleans Police Department with equipment and recruiting costs to increase its crime-fighting tactics after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New corps chief says he's personally committed to rebuilding New ...
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- A year after his predecessor acknowledged the Army Corps of Engineers' responsibility for the catastrophic flooding in Hurricane Katrina, ...
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New Orleans Deploys Roam Secure for Emergency Text Notification
Web Services Journal - Montvale,NJ,USA
ARLINGTON, Va., May 31 /PRNewswire/ -- More than a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina hit Gulf Coast communities, emergency officials in New Orleans ...
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New Orleans medics question state study on post-Katrina deaths
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS -- A study of death in the metropolitan New Orleans area since Hurricane Katrina by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals sparked ...
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New Orleans Emergency Department Physicians Not Paid for Treating ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
Emergency department physicians in the New Orleans area are not receiving pay for treating uninsured patients who before Hurricane Katrina would have been ...
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Nagin calls on state, feds to help New Orleans recover
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Mayor Ray Nagin, in his first State of the City address since Hurricane Katrina, said Wednesday that New Orleans is a city on the mend, ...
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The Next New Orleans: 5 hurricane disasters, waiting to happen
Laconia Citizen - Laconia,NH,USA
Just because Katrina was the perfect storm _ a catastrophic combo of the wrong hurricane in the wrong place at the wrong time _ doesn't mean that history ...
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