Wednesday, April 23, 2008

04/23/2008 NOLA News


Who should pay to protect New Orleans?
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
If this buffer -- equivalent to the state of Delaware -- had not been destroyed, New Orleans would need little other hurricane protection. ...
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48 hours in New Orleans
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
BIG EASY: Revelers celebrate Mardi Gras on Bourbon St in the French Quarter of New Orleans. More than two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New ...
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festival is yet another survivor of Katrina
USA Today - USA
says Quint Davis, producer/director of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the annual music marathon that was almost crippled by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Trumpeter Mayfield's Civic Activism Honors Dad Lost to Katrina
Bloomberg - USA
By Patrick Cole April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield lost his father to Hurricane Katrina, his body washed up on a New Orleans street ...
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North American leaders gather in 'comeback' city of New Orleans
Houston Chronicle - United States
Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005 after levees broke. "I know thousands of Mexicans have participated in the reconstruction of New Orleans," ...
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Arts Enterprise brings New Orleans to forefront
Bowling Green News - Bowling Green,OH,USA
"Katrina was a catastrophic event that uncovered injustice not only limited to New Orleans, but throughout all of society," Griffith said. ...
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New Orleans copes with youth crime wave
United Press International - USA
NEW ORLEANS, April 22 (UPI) -- Two boys in their early teens were charged with armed robbery this week in New Orleans -- another sign of a youth crime wave, ...
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NJ Woman Continues Katrina Relief Fund at Greets and Treats
PR Leap (press release) - Chula Vista,CA,USA
She began collecting the day after the hurricane hit New Orleans, August 29, 2005. "After Hurricane Katrina hit the Golf Coast region in 2005, we thought it ...
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Canadian Students Protest Security and Prosperity Partnership ...
Infoshop News - USA
Student activists from Ontario travel to New Orleans to protest the SPP and the ongoing marginalization of Hurricane Katrina survivors. ...
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