Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Google Alert - New Orleans Katrina Hurricane

On 10/11/2010 2:06 PM, Google Alerts wrote:
News 5 new results for New Orleans Katrina Hurricane
 
More than 3/4 of Katrina damaged homes rebuilt
WWL First News
A new study by The University of New Orleans' geography department says 77 percent of area homes flooded following Hurricane Katrina have been or are being ...
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Entergy New Orleans pledges $1 million to support New Orleans Recreation ...
NOLA.com
... but the $1 million gift represents the utility company's single largest donation since Hurricane Katrina, Rice said. Rice, a New Orleans native, ...
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Louisiana-Mississippi news at 4:30 pm CDT
Victoria Advocate
NEW ORLEANS - The University of New Orleans will dedicate a Hurricane Katrina memorial on Monday, nearly five years after the university resumed classes ...
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Xavier University's new pharmacy building owes much to oil-rich emirate Qatar
NOLA.com
... Coast area recover from Hurricane Katrina. The five-story building, in use since mid-August, was designed by Blitch Knevel Architects of New Orleans. ...
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St. Pierre fallout continues, claims BR tech director
The INDsider
Prosecutors noted that Thibodeaux's wife Celeste was hired by a St. Pierre company, Imagine Software, at a rate of $80 an hour following Hurricane Katrina ...
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Google Alert - New Orleans Katrina Hurricane

On 10/10/2010 2:06 PM, Google Alerts wrote:
News 8 new results for New Orleans Katrina Hurricane
 
UNO to dedicate Katrina memorial
KLFY
AP - October 10, 2010 11:14 AM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The University of New Orleans will dedicate a Hurricane Katrina memorial on Monday, nearly five years ...
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Local man becomes fascinated with amateur radio after Hurricane Katrina
Mt. Vernon Register-News
VERNON — When Wayne Sampson went to New Orleans to help with recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina, he became fascinated with amateur radio after he ...
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Martin Denesse, La. Pastor, Sentenced For Bilking Katrina Victims
Huffington Post
By Allen Powell II / Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS (RNS) A Louisiana minister will spend two years in prison for his role in bilking Hurricane Katrina victims ...
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Biking in New Orleans might be less of an uphill battle these days
NOLA.com
View full sizeSince Hurricane Katrina, designated bike lanes have been added to many of the city’s main thoroughfares, including St. Claude, Carrollton, ...
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Road Home could be smoothed by court rulings
NOLA.com
Because Mark and Romy Samuels had jobs and insurance on their Gentilly home that was totaled by Hurricane Katrina's flooding, they got nothing from the Road ...
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BWW Reviews: THE DAY THE WATERS CAME, The Unicorn Theatre, October 8 2010
Broadway World
... son and I expect that is the reaction Lisa Evans wanted to provoke when she began to write about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. ...
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Betty Henderson accepts March of Dimes Tiffany Award
Shreveport Times
"Adopted" a family of seven from Liberia by way of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and spent countless hours helping them get settled. ...
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'Hurricane' blows in
Bradenton Herald
The playwright said Katrina was in the back of his mind when he wrote the play, but he didn't want to base his story in New Orleans. ...
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Google Alert - New Orleans Katrina Hurricane

On 10/8/2010 2:06 PM, Google Alerts wrote:
News 8 new results for New Orleans Katrina Hurricane
 
Study: Katrina mold didn't increase allergic reactions in New Orleans
WREG
By AP NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A new study finds the mold that pervaded New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina didn't lead to a general increase in mold allergies. ...
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Two women sentenced in Katrina fraud cases
RocNow
2005, Henderson falsely reported to FEMA that she had been residing in New Orleans and had been displaced as a result of the hurricane and received $2000 ...
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UNO to renovate student center
WXVT
AP - October 8, 2010 6:04 AM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The University of New Orleans will shift more than $200000 in post-hurricane renovations from ...
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Former St. Paul residents face fraud charges
Houston Chronicle
2010 AP MINNEAPOLIS — Two former St. Paul residents are accused of fraudulently obtaining nearly $65000 from the federal government for Hurricane Katrina ...
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State Dept. sends Katrina cartoonist JOSH NEUFELD to Mideast to 'showcase ...
Washington Post
Neufeld went to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, volunteering as an American Red Cross worker. He blogged about the storm's social and physical ravages, ...
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Susan Cowsill brings her survivor's spirit to Hoboken
The Jersey Journal - NJ.com
"I never set out to write a 'Katrina' album," said Cowsill,in a phone conversation from her New Orleans home prior to her current tour. ...
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New Orleans public school performance scores show broad disparity
NOLA.com
By contrast, the state-run Recovery School District, which seized most New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina, is still the second-worst in the state, ...
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Rainbow, MSG, Fuse Fete CTAM Summit With New Orleans Musical Event
Multichannel News
Cablevision and Madison Square Garden teamed with Davis in September 2005, following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, to organize the "From The Big ...
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Google Alert - New Orleans Katrina Hurricane

On 10/7/2010 2:06 PM, Google Alerts wrote:
News 10 new results for New Orleans Katrina Hurricane
 
Fraud charges filed Hurricane Katrina probe
Minnesota Public Radio
A man and woman who lived together in St. Paul after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans have been charged with fraudulently claiming disaster relief benefits ...
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5 Years After They Fled Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Family Still In Rochester
13WHAM-TV
Wanda Weems says she felt lost, helpless and hopeless after Hurricane Katrina destroyed her home in New Orleans. She grabbed her three children and got out ...
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FEMA: FEMA Provides $135 Million To State's Recovery From Katrina And Rita
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
NEW ORLEANS – The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced today that almost $135 million has been obligated within the past week for hurricane Katrina ...
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Livingstone College News Service
Salisbury Post
Last year a group spent a week in New Orleans performing Hurricane Katrina renovations. “It is vital for our students to understand the importance in giving ...
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ECO by Cosentino Joins Forces With Make it Right to Donate Eco-Friendly ...
PR Newswire (press release)
When more than 4000 homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, Brad Pitt toured the deserted and devastated neighborhood and ...
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The Changing Face Of NOFD
WDSU New Orleans
NOFD Superintendent Charles Parent said the department changed after Hurricane Katrina, when the majority of the experienced force retired or left the city ...
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UNO reallocates funds originally intended to renovate executive offices
LSU The Reveille
Approximately $229000 in federal hurricane relief funds have been assigned to repair damages that occurred to the University Center during Hurricane Katrina ...
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Why Planning for the Worst is Best in Coping With Climate Risks
Reuters
In the wake of New Orleans' hurricane Katrina disaster, or the leveling of scores of cities in Pakistan due to flooding this past summer, it's not as hard ...
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The Day The Waters Came at Unicorn Theatre
Spoonfed
... Evans weaves together the pieces that make up the ongoing nightmares of a 14 year old girl who returns to New Orleans a year after hurricane Katrina. ...
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Spoonfed
Children's Health Fund Responds to Public Health Crisis by Providing Mobile ...
PR Newswire (press release)
... families in neighborhoods recovering from Hurricane Katrina," said Dr. Alina Olteanu, Medical Director for the New Orleans Children's Health Project. ...
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Google Alert - New Orleans Katrina Hurricane

On 10/6/2010 2:06 PM, Google Alerts wrote:
News 8 new results for New Orleans Katrina Hurricane
 
The Subdudes
A.V. Club
Hurricane Katrina was a cataclysmic disaster for New Orleans' residents, but for bands such as The Subdudes, the attention focused on Louisiana has offered ...
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Remaking the New Orleans Police Department, with help from the National Guard ...
NOLA.com
When New Orleans was struggling to maintain order and protect its citizens in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the city turned to the Louisiana National ...
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After Class – Commentary: October 6, 2010
Catalyst Ohio
Experts worry US students are sliding farther behind by Scott Stephens It's the summer of 2006 in New Orleans, not quite one year after Hurricane Katrina, ...
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Senator to Pastorek: Delay inspector general plans
KLFY
The money is part of the state's settlement with FEMA for the damage done by Hurricane Katrina to New Orleans schools in 2005. ...
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Financial conflict claims EMS director
FierceHealthFinance
Hurricane Katrina didn't topple the head of New Orleans' emergency medical services system, but an apparent conflict of interest did. ...
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Homeownership Matters Are Top-of-Mind for Realtors ® in New Orleans
Marketwire (press release)
Four years ago, NAR was the first major conference to return to New Orleans after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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South Lafourche levees fail corps inspection
Daily Comet
While New Orleans received billions of dollars from the federal government to build their levee system after Hurricane Katrina, South Lafourche primarily ...
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Oil spill still controversial
Observer Online
... Hurricane Katrina." In response to the effects of the spill on people in the fishing industry, the Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of New Orleans ...
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Google Alert - New Orleans Katrina Hurricane

On 10/5/2010 2:06 PM, Google Alerts wrote:
News 9 new results for New Orleans Katrina Hurricane
 
Greater New Orleans Foundation awards grants to provide housing
The Daily Tell
New Orleans is a city that has been devastated by a series of disasters over the last few years. From Hurricane Katrina to the BP oil spill, the historical ...
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SBOA Raises Money for Katrina Survivors
Self Storage Industry News
... the St. Bernard Project, an organization of volunteers who are helping to rebuild New Orleans homes that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. ...
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GPC Newton Hosts Symposium on Aftermath of Katrina
Covington News
GPC Newton history professor George Pabis will deliver two keynote speeches: one on why Hurricane Katrina was so devastating to New Orleans and another on ...
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Online editor searches for daughter while covering Katrina
The Ranger
He is a Pulitzer Prize winner for the New Orleans Times-Picayune's Katrina coverage and founding editor and chief of NOLA.com, the newspaper's advanced ...
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Rage and hope in a Katrina requiem
Philadelphia Inquirer
By the title, you might think this work was a kindly, earnest prayer for his hometown of New Orleans, a city that suffered ravages and indignities yet ...
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Texas Manager Ron Washington rebuilds a team, a home and himself
Los Angeles Times
(Matthew Emmons / US Presswire / September 30, 2010) By Mike DiGiovanna What Hurricane Katrina did to Ron Washington's New Orleans home in 2005, ...
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Los Angeles Times
Storage Business Owners Alliance Reception in New Orleans Raises $1000 for ...
Inside Self-Storage
The St. Bernard Project creates housing opportunities so Hurricane Katrina survivors can return to their homes and communities. ...
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A New Zealand Native's Musical Journey Through America
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By the time I finally arrived the frontier appeared razed and the dream frayed: Hurricane Katrina had decimated New Orleans and toxic wars and mortgages ...
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VP Biden to speak at Jewish federations' annual parlay
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (blog)
The conference, which annually gathers several thousand officials and lay leaders of the Jewish federation system will be held in New Orleans between Nov. ...
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Google Alert - New Orleans Katrina Hurricane

On 10/4/2010 2:07 PM, Google Alerts wrote:
News 10 new results for New Orleans Katrina Hurricane
 
Oregon native volunteers on the bayou
Daily Comet
By Nate Monroe GRAY — Evan Ponder was in New Orleans, thousands of miles away from his home, a few months after Hurricane Katrina unleashed its destruction ...
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Catastrophe Bonds Jump to Five-Year High as US Escapes Storms
BusinessWeek
The Swiss Re index, which doesn't reflect interest payments, fell 6.6 percent in 2005, the year Katrina struck New Orleans. The hurricane killed more than ...
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Obama makes ad for Louisiana Democrat
USA Today
Obama endorses Louisiana legislator Cedric Richmond in the ad, calling him one of New Orleans' "champions" as it recovers from Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Knocking out blight in New Orleans: An editorial
NOLA.com
The age of the city and the gradual decline in population had made New Orleans vulnerable to blight long before Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches. ...
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Recovery School District's Vallas aided post-quake reform in Haiti
NOLA.com
Keeping the New Orleans schools, themselves still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, on the right track while he was in Haiti? No, that was not the problem ...
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Igor's destruction sends message to coastal communities
rabble.ca
Something to pick up our attention that has wandered since hurricane Juan smacked Halifax in 2003, since Katrina destroyed New Orleans in 2005 and even as ...
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Restoration of Joe Bartholomew Golf Course finally on par
Louisiana Weekly
The initial plan to reopen the course was scheduled the weekend after Hurricane Katrina hit. Additions will include nine new lakes, increased drainage ...
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Waupun shelter lends hand to abandoned Gulf area pets
Fond du Lac Reporter
... director of the Plaquemines Animal Welfare Society, a no-kill shelter just north of New Orleans. Since Hurricane Katrina, Stroman said there has been a ...
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LB Landry High School in Algiers has shaky start
NOLA.com
The shake-ups at the two high schools are the latest example of the instability that has characterized post-Katrina public education in New Orleans, ...
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New Orleans court costs, fines are unfair to the poor, 2 national reports find
NOLA.com
That figure would have been substantially larger before Hurricane Katrina, when Municipal Court was less focused on offering defendants community-service ...
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