01/31/2008 NOLA News

Judge throws out case against Katrina army corps
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Flooding surrounds Interstate 10 at the US 90 interchange in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the area. Photograph: Bill Feig/AP A judge ...
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Mardi Gras Means Money in New Orleans
The Associated Press -
Before Katrina, there were about 38000 rooms in the region. In New Orleans, 1355 restaurants are open, about 72 percent of the 1882 pre-Katrina ...
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Officer’s Slaying Leaves New Orleans Asking Why
New York Times - United States
Even before Katrina hit, mental health services for the poor in New Orleans were often criticized as inadequate — as they are in many big cities with large ...
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Even Warriors' Davis fails to draw fans in New Orleans
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... although the poor attendance in New Orleans is no laughing matter for the NBA. The team had trouble even before Hurricane Katrina made landfall in ...
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Mardi Gras concert will help New Orleans
Hudson Star Observer - Hudson,WI,USA
After Hurricane Katrina, St. Anna’s Episcopal Church in New Orleans converted a used RV into a traveling medical unit to provide service throughout the New ...
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New Orleans Cop Killing Stresses Mental Health Crises Post Katrina
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
“After Katrina and the exodus of physicians from our area, the specialty with the greatest loss in the New Orleans area was Psychiatrists, with reportedly a ...
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Music Review: The Blind Boys Of Alabama Down In New Orleans
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
In the two and a half years since the flooding that followed hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, everybody seems to be lining up to pay homage to the ...
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FEMA & Formeldehyde?

FEMA Accused of Twisting Science in Report on Trailer Danger
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/013008HA.shtml
According to CNN, "Representative Nick Lampson (D-Texas) said Tuesday that Federal Emergency Management Agency tried to control the outcome of a scientific study on formaldehyde in trailers used to house victims of Hurricane Katrina."

01/29/2008 NOLA News

Bush seeks to make amends on New Orleans
Reuters - USA
Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and killed about 1400 people. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and then-Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco criticized Bush ...
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New Orleans Police Officer Shot to Death
The Associated Press -
... where hopes were high that a new year could hold back a wave of crime that has been a dark backdrop to the rebuilding effort since Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Democrats claim FEMA downplayed formaldehyde risks in Katrina trailers
USA Today - USA
... research to downplay the danger posed by formaldehyde in trailers issued to victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a New Orleans newspaper reports. ...
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Powell: Challenges Remain for NO
Houston Chronicle - United States
While economic development was a perennial topic long before Katrina, Pamela Meyer, director of business development for Greater New Orleans Inc., ...
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Boost for struggling New Orleans
WWSB ABC 7 - Sarasota,FL,USA
... from Hurricane Katrina. The conference will include leaders from the US, Mexico and Canada. The White House says holding the meeting in New Orleans will ...
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New Orleans officer killed with own gun
kjrh.com - Tulsa,OK,USA
Cotton was 24 years old and among the first graduates of the police academy after Hurricane Katrina. Police say the suspect, Bernell Johnson, was arrested ...
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URI Honors students raise funds for Katrina victims, encourage ...
URI The Good 5 Cent Cigar (subscription) - Kingston,RI,USA
The "Night for New Orleans" also featured a short documentary about Rhode Island's hurricane preparedness created by students Astrid Drew, Chris Barrett and ...
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Indiana Company Offers Funds to New Orleans
Inside INdiana Business (press release) - Indianapolis,IN,USA
Warsaw-based DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. has offered funding to help rebuild portions of New Orleans City Park that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. ...
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01/28/2007 NOLA News

New Orleans Carnival Goes to the Dogs
The Associated Press -
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Carnival season in New Orleans is the prime time to see all the crazy people. Just add their dogs to the mix, as they did Sunday, ...
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Wonder to play New Orleans jazz festival
Ireland Online - Dublin,Ireland
... scaled back following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The singer has never headlined the event - only featuring for an impromptu jam session with New Orleans ...
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New Orleans Recovery On Track But Challenges Remain
Eyewitness News Memphis - TN, USA
... Donald Powell, had said a year ago that he hoped to bring 10000 jobs to New Orleans to help rebuild the Hurricane Katrina-battered middle class. ...
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Powell: New Orleans on track but challenges remain
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
By Becky Bohrer AP A year after saying he hoped to bring 10000 jobs to New Orleans to help rebuild the Hurricane Katrina-battered middle class, ...
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Katrina doc played like thriller
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Trouble the Water, the video diary of a New Orleans couple caught in the eye of Hurricane Katrina, won the grand jury prize for docs in Saturday's ...
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Habitat's new controls concern some affliates, including New Orleans
The Christian Century - USA
The organization has built 101 homes around the New Orleans area since Katrina hit in 2005—as many as had been built in the previous 21 years—and has 147 in ...
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What others say
New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA
New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul looks for a passing lane around Miami’s Jason Williams (55) and Mark Blount. The Hornets won the Jan. 11 game 114-88. ...
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01/26/2008 NOLA News

Blue-Collar NO Faces Cost Squeeze
Forbes - NY,USA
"If post-Katrina New Orleans is more like Everyplace USA there is less reason to be here. The draw here is culture, and intellect, and art, and much of that ...
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Weather Stalls Most New Orleans Parades
The Associated Press -
2. About 800000 people participated in Carnival last year, up from an estimated 350000 in 2006, New Orleans' first Mardi Gras after Hurricane Katrina.
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News - Music, movie, Entertainment WONDER TO PLAY NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
... Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Superstition singer has never headlined the event - only featuring for an impromptu jam session with New Orleans group ...
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'This Old House' a good fit with New Orleans
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
When and how we put New Orleans back together after Hurricane Katrina may one day rightfully be seen as a gauge of America's heart in the early 21st century ...
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Leary helps rebuild New Orleans firehouses
United Press International - USA
25 (UPI) -- Actor and comedian Denis Leary is using his charitable foundation to help New Orleans rebuild firehouses it lost in Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Residents vow to make New Orleans better
Traverse City Record Eagle - Traverse City,MI,USA
Katrina ravaged many areas in New Orleans, but the Lower Ninth Ward was widely reported as sustaining some of the worst damage. The largely working-class ...
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Tell the networks to make Gulf Coast rebuilding the top topic in ...
San Francisco Bay View - San Francisco,CA,USA
Top candidates from both parties have characterized the government's response to Hurricane Katrina as a failure during their respective debates. ...
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— Mr. Jindal Goes to Baton Rouge
Harvard Political Review - Cambridge,MA,USA
Though the Army Corps of Engineers has rebuilt most of New Orleans’s levees, many have been deemed unable to withstand storms of Katrina’s strength. ...
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La. spends $10.5 million to keep Guard in NO through June
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - New Orleans,LA,USA
The earmark for the 360 soldiers patrolling New Orleans neighborhoods boosts total state spending on Guard and state police there since Hurricane Katrina to ...
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From Habitat For Humanity

	January 2008 News Going back to the Gulf Habitat for Humanity’s 25th annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project is set for May 11-16 in the Mississippi Gulf Coast, an area still struggling to recover after bearing the full fury of Hurricane Katrina more than two years ago. The Carters will lead nearly 2,000 volunteers as they build 20 new houses with families in Pascagoula and 10 in Biloxi. Learn how you can be a part of this milestone project. The power of partners Thanks to new or renewed partnerships with Tropicana, Coldwell Banker and Schneider Electric/Square D, many more families in need will be celebrating the life-changing joys and responsibilities of owning a home. Gifts worth giving Looking for unique gift ideas? How about a translucent fold-up ruler or a foam puzzle in the shape of a house? Items from Habitat’s online store make any gift-giving occasion even more special, while also contributing to an exceptional cause: eliminating substandard housing worldwide. Get Involved with Habitat A WISH come true Great news! Thanks to the support of thousands of Habitat supporters like you, the WISH Act of 2007 has been passed by Congress and signed by President Bush. This groundbreaking legislation creates a national commission to focus on the safety and well-being of children in the aftermath of any natural disaster, such as the severe problems with housing that resulted from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Thanks for all your efforts! Habitat Success Story Impacting the Next Generation Asunta Vilches and her family have found “space and comfort” in their two-bedroom Habitat house.	Q&A: David Minich Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes when thousands of volunteers travel around the world to build? Submit your questions for David Minich, director of Habitat’s Global Village program, to QAndA@habitat.org. Housing Statistic 12,865,806: Number of children in poverty in the United States (2003 estimate).1 Subscribe Was this e-mail forwarded to you by a friend? Sign up for Habitat Extra via our Web site. Learn about Habitat - Local affiliates - Read our site index Partner with Habitat - Donate online - Job opportunities - Volunteer programs - Be an advocate
1Housing Assistance Council To contact us: Habitat for Humanity International 121 Habitat Street Americus, GA 31709-3498 ©2008 Habitat for Humanity® International. All rights reserved.

01/24/2008 NOLA News

New Orleans Jazz Festival lineup
Chicago Tribune - United States
The event will be back to seven days for the first time since 2005, which is the year Hurricane Katrina hit. Other headliners at the 39th annual event will ...
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'This Old House' series to focus on New Orleans
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
Some 15 percent of the homes in historic districts of New Orleans suffered damage as the result of Hurricane Katrina. In the Galleries — University of Akron ...
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The Race Card
Slate - USA
Katrina is a prime example of a racial injury without racists. Like most American cities, New Orleans is racially segregated. ...
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Local producer has high hopes for series
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Hurricane Katrina's aftermath may strike you as an odd backdrop for a sitcom, but Houston filmmaker Lionell Hilliard believes his story of a New Orleans ...
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Your e-mail address:
SI.com - USA
Despite their back-and-forth existence between New Orleans and Oklahoma City amid the desolation of Hurricane Katrina, Bower reinvented the Hornets last ...
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Katrina Aftermath: Far from settled
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Now consider that this winter season has been particularly unkind to those living under bridges and in alleyways in New Orleans. Earlier this month, we got ...
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New gumbo shop to open on US 1
Stafford County Sun - Stafford,VA,USA
... a way to bring a childhood tradition and a New Orleans staple back to life, despite losing her family's treasures in Hurricane Katrina two years ago. ...
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Our view: Getting ready
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA
The only thing worse than Hurricane Katrina was the disaster that followed to provide relief to New Orleans. There was plenty of blame to go around -- New ...
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01/23/2008 NOLA News

La. Homeowners Settle Katrina Suit
Houston Chronicle - United States
The deal was reached before the case could go to trial in US District Court in New Orleans. "Although we were confident in our case, we're pleased to have a ...
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New Orleans lacks healthcare workers
United Press International - USA
... which are needed to attract professionals and service workers -- especially doctors -- to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are a primary cause of ...
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New Beginning for Small Business Owner Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
... New Orleans-based virtual assistance business, Beryl Powell Virtual Assistance, was at the height of its success in August 2005 when Hurricane Katrina ...
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Louisiana Small Business Buzz: La Divina In New Orleans
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
“When we decided to open La Divina in post-Katrina New Orleans , we felt we had a special obligation not only to authenticity but to using the best ...
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January 26--Support the Right to Return in New Orleans!
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
The homeless crisis in New Orleans is one of the worst in history. More than 12000 residents are now homeless after Katrina and hurricane survivors face ...
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2008 New Orleans Boat Show Attracts Highest Attendance since Katrina
dBusinessNews New Orleans (press release) - New Orleans,LA,USA
... 38 th Annual New Orleans Boat Show, held January 9-13, at the Morial Convention Center, saw its highest attendance records since Hurricane Katrina hit ...
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Reinstated Grants Provide Lift for New Orleans Artists
KUAR - Little Rock,AR,USA
... by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation's Community Partnership Grants, which have been reinstated for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Unmanned aircraft could boost hurricane-monitoring
Reuters - USA
It also would aid coastal cities such as New Orleans, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, in making preparations, NOAA research meteorologist ...
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01-18-2008 NOLA News

UN Official: US Neglects Katrina Victims
The Associated Press -
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A United Nations official who has toured parts of Louisiana and Mississippi devastated by Hurricane Katrina says the thousands of victims ...
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Katrina `rescued Embryo' Baby Turns 1
The Associated Press -
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Once a frozen embryo threatened by Hurricane Katrina, little Noah Markham — named for the survivor of the biblical flood-of-all-floods ...
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Pitt organization helps rebuild New Orleans
Echo Online (subscription) - Chattanooga,TN,USA
When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, devastating the region and displacing many of it inhabitants, UTC responded with outstanding generosity. ...
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New Orleans
USA Today - USA
Oklahoma City's Ford Center hosted the Hornets (25-12) for parts of two seasons after Hurricane Katrina forced the team's temporary relocation in 2005. ...
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Dutch-designed homes to dot New Orleans
United Press International - USA
16 (UPI) -- Residents of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, will be living in houses designed by architects in the ...
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Law students help with Katrina relief
The Daily Collegian Online - University Park,PA,USA
Twelve students from Penn State's Dickinson School of Law volunteered to assist in the efforts to rebuild New Orleans from the damage done by Hurricane ...
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Students headed to New Orleans
Hudson Sun - Marlborough,MA,USA
... Jakubowicz will putting what he’s learned to good use for a worthwhile cause: helping to repair New Orleans-area homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Rebuilding the Workforce in New Orleans
Workforce Management - Irvine,Ca,USA
By Craig Guillot wo years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, the signs of New Orleans’ workforce challenges are everywhere. ...
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New Orleans Hotel Deals Show Confidence in City
GlobeSt. com - New York,NY,USA
The hotels are a half mile apart, with the Hyatt Regency still shuttered due to damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. "Many hotels are seeing drops in ...
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First Came Katrina, Then Came HUD

First Came Katrina, Then Came HUD
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011608H.shtml
Lewis Wallace reports for In These Times: "The temperature in New Orleans was uncharacteristically cold in mid-December, dipping into the 30s. As thousands of homeless people living in encampments huddled in blankets, housing activists from around the country converged on the city to protest the demolition of more than 4,500 units of public housing, once at the epicenter of New Orleans' low-income African-American community."

01-16-2008 NOLA News

Report: NO Population Growth Slowing
The Associated Press -
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After a year of steady growth, New Orleans' rate of repopulation nearly flatlined late last year, according to a report released Tuesday. ...
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Neighborhood Clinics Increasing in Prominence in New Orleans ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington,DC,USA
... the place of hospitals and medical centers in New Orleans because of physician shortages and structural damage to buildings caused by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Storm of the Century: Rita and Katrina to meet in New Orleans
Unconfirmed Sources (satire) - USA
Hurricane Katrina has spun through Georgia and will make a second pass over New Orleans Saturday afternoon. National Weather service predicts the storms ...
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O'Neal, Bush team up to host all-star fundraiser for New Orleans
The Canadian Press -
... Orleans Saints after being their top draft choice when the NFL team returned to the city after being displaced one season following hurricane Katrina. ...
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Hornets’ future sketchy
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) - Tacoma,WA,USA
A city of nearly 500000 before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans’ population is now around 300000, according to the latest US Census results. And New Orleans ...
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Blackhawks over Bourbon Street
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
Following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans became a case study of how this cycle works: there is a crisis (often as a result of earlier government actions or ...
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‘The Hurricane Messed a Lot of Us Up’
Education Week News - Bethesda,MD,USA
Settling back in to school has been a struggle for thousands of New Orleans students whose lives were disrupted by Katrina. By Lesli A. Maxwell There had ...
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Sonics' road trip toughest of all
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Carlesimo and his team spent 45 minutes handing food to the homeless who have congregated since Hurricane Katrina under New Orleans' busiest freeway. ...
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Republican Albert Howard & Democrat Dennis Kucinich need donations for NH hand count TODAY!!

Donations to the Howard's count can be made here ^[9]. Donations to Kucinich's count can be made here ^[10]

- The BRAD BLOG - http://www.bradblog.com -

'Send Lawyers, Peace and Money': New Hampshire Election Contests Get Technical, Testy Before They Even Begin

Election Integrity Experts Converge and Join Both Republican and Democratic Candidates in Quest for Transparency

New Hampshire Secretary of State Questioned About Documentation, Poll Records and Diebold Memory Cards...

Posted By Brad Friedman On 15th January 2008 @ 04:27 In Diebold/Premier, Election Irregularities, Election 2008, BlackBoxVoting.org, New Hampshire, Dennis Kucinich, Harri Hursti, Albert Howard | 13 Comments

By Brad Friedman from Sacramento...

Election Integrity experts from around the country have been converging on the Granite State over the last several days, in preparation for "historic" state-wide hand counts of New Hampshire's Primary Election ballots, The BRAD BLOG ^[1] has learned. Counts of votes in both the Democratic and Republican side will begin in earnest this Wednesday, as long as the two contesting candidates deliver certified checks by 3pm on Tuesday, in an amount determined on Monday by Secretary of State William M. Gardner.

The battle for transparency and accountability on the ground, where some 80% of the state's ballots were tallied only by error-prone, hackable Diebold optical-scan voting machines, without human audit or spot-check of any kind, in last week's first-in-the-nation Primary, is already growing heated on both sides of the aisle, and even inside the statehouse as of Monday.

While representatives from each of the contestants have reportedly been working together on several aspects of the two separate counts --- each claiming to have requested the hand-counts in order to help answer questions about anomalous reported results --- what has become immediately clear, during our interviews with several members involved in the challgenges, as well as Election Integrity advocates now in New Hampshire and elsewhere, is that these election challenges may not likely mirror the partial recount in 2004, held at the request of then-Presidential candidate Ralph Nader.

As a two-page request for a detailed list of ballot and voting machine-related public documents and records, obtained by The BRAD BLOG ^[1], as submitted on Monday to Gardner by the previously obscure Republican candidate Albert Howard made clear, the battle for integrity and transparency in post-election challenges, may have finally caught up with the technical sea-changes in voting equipment that have overtaken the American election system over the last several years.

Due to extraordinary complexities in the ever more complicated computer systems, scanners, tabulators, record sets, databases and proprietary programming that have now been employed by election administrators across the country, the once simple task of examining and recounting paper ballots --- where they still exist, as they do in New Hampshire --- has grown exponentially more technical and confusing.

Early word on the ground in New Hampshire's capitol city of Concord, along with concerns from candidates, surrogates and election experts alike, suggests that these "recounts" could be like no other, in the history of the country...