Eighteen Months After Katrina By Bill Quigley t r u t h o u t Guest Contributor
Tuesday 27 February 2007
Each morning, Debra South Jones drives 120 miles into New Orleans to cook and serve over 300 hot free meals to people in New Orleans East, where she lived until Katrina took her home. Ms. Jones and several volunteers also distribute groceries to 18,000 families a month through their group, Just the Right Attitude. Who comes for food? "Most of the people are working on their own houses because they can't afford contractors," Ms. Jones said. "They are living in their gutted-out houses with no electricity."
Why do thousands of people need food, and why are people living in gutted-out houses with no electricity? Look at New Orleans eighteen months after Katrina, and you will realize why it is so difficult for people to exercise the human right to return to their homes.
Half of the homes in New Orleans still do not have electricity. Eighteen months after Katrina, a third of a million people in the New Orleans metro area have not returned.
FEMA told Congress that 60,000 families in Louisiana still live in 240-square-foot trailers - usually at least three to a trailer. The Louisiana Hurricane Task Force estimated in December 2006 that there was an "urgent need" for 30,000 affordable rental apartments in New Orleans alone - and another 15,000 around the rest of the state.
Eighteen months after Katrina, over 80 percent of the 5,100 occupied public-housing apartments in New Orleans remained closed by order of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which has controlled the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) since 2002. HUD pressed ahead even though internal HANO documents revealed the cost for repair and renovation was significantly less than for demolition and redevelopment. A professor from MIT inspected the buildings and declared them structurally sound. Architecture critics applaud the current garden-style buildings. Yet HUD plows ahead, planning to spend tens of millions of Katrina dollars to tear down millions of dollars worth of habitable housing and end up with far fewer affordable apartments - a clear loss for the community.
Over $100 billion was approved by Congress to rebuild the Gulf Coast. Over $50 billion of that money was allocated to temporary and long-term housing. Just under $30 billion was for emergency response and Department of Defense spending. Over $18 billion was for state and local response and the rebuilding of infrastructure. Another $3.6 billion was for health, social services and job training, and $3.2 was for non-housing cash assistance. Education was allocated $1.9 billion and $1.2 billion was given to agriculture.
Louisiana received $10 billion to fix up housing. Over 109,000 homeowners applied for federal funds to fix up their homes. Eighteen months later, fewer than 700 families have received this federal assistance. Renters, who comprised a majority of New Orleans, are worse off - they get nothing at all. Some money is scheduled to go to some landlords and apartment developers for some apartments at some time. There were uncountable generous and courageous and heroic acts of people and communities who stretched themselves to assist people displaced by the hurricane. Many of these continue. However, there are several notable exceptions.
Obstacles to public funding of affordable housing came from within New Orleans and in neighboring parishes. Many in New Orleans do not want the poor who lived in public housing to return.
St. Bernard Parish, a 93 percent white suburb adjoining New Orleans, enacted a post-Katrina ordinance that restricted homeowners from renting out single-family homes "unless the renter is a blood relative" without securing a permit from the government.
Jefferson Parish, another adjoining majority-white suburb, unanimously passed a resolution opposing all low-income, tax-credit, multifamily housing in the areas closest to New Orleans - effectively stopping construction of a 200-unit apartment building on vacant land for people over the age of 62, and blocking any further assisted housing.
Across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, the chief law enforcement officer of St. Tammany Parish, Sheriff Jack Strain, complained openly about the post-Katrina presence of "thugs and trash" from "New Orleans public housing" and announced that people with dreadlocks or "chee wee hairstyles" could "expect to be getting a visit from a sheriff's deputy."
With rebuilding starting up and the previous work force still displaced, tens of thousands of migrant workers have come to the Gulf Coast to work in the recovery. Many were recruited. Most workers tell of being promised good wages and working conditions and plenty of work. Some paid money up front for the chance to come to the area to work. Most of these promises were broken. A tour of the area reveals that many Latino workers live in houses without electricity and others live out of cars. At various places in the city, whole families are living in tents.
Many former residents of New Orleans are not welcome to return. Race is certainly a factor. So is class. As New Orleans native and professor Adolph Reed notes: "With each passing day, a crucially significant political distinction in New Orleans gets clearer and clearer: Property owners are able to assert their interests in the polity, while non-owners are nearly as invisible in civic life now as in the early eighteenth century."
New Orleans is now the charter capital of the US. All public schools on the side of the Mississippi River that did not flood were turned into charters within weeks of Katrina. The schools with strongest parental support and high test scores were flipped into charters. The charters have little connection to each other and to state or local supervision. Those in the top half of the pre-Katrina population may be getting a better education. Kids without high scores, with disabilities, with little parental involvement who are not in charters are certainly not getting a good education and are shuttled into the bottom half - a makeshift system of state and local schools.
John McDonogh, a public high school created to take the place of five pre-Katrina high schools, illustrates the challenges facing non-charter public education in New Orleans. The school was opened by the state school district in the fall of 2006. As of November there were 775 students, but teachers, textbooks and supplies remained in short order months after school opened. Many teens, as many as one-fifth at the school, were living in New Orleans without their parents. Fights were frequent despite the presence of metal detectors, twenty-five security guards and an additional eight police officers. In fact, several security guards, who were not much older than the students, were injured in fights with students. Students described the school as having a "prison atmosphere." There were no hot lunches and few working water fountains. The girls' bathrooms did not have doors on them. The library had no books at all - not even shelves for books - in early November. One 15-year-old student caught the 5 a.m. bus from Baton Rouge to attend the high school. "Our school has 39 security guards and three cops on staff and only 27 teachers," one McDonogh teacher reported.
It took two federal civil rights actions in January 2007 to force the state to abolish a waiting list for entry into public school that stranded hundreds of kids out of school for weeks.
Health care is in a crisis. The main public health care provider, Charity Hospital, which saw 350,000 patient visits a year, remains closed, as do half of the hospitals in the city. It is not clear if it will reopen. Plans are being debated that will shift indigent care and its state and federal compensation to private hospitals. Much of the uncompensated care provided by Charity has shifted to other LSU hospitals, with people traveling as far as 85 miles to the Earl K. Long Hospital in Baton Rouge - which reports a 50 percent increase in uncompensated care. Waiting lines are long in emergency rooms for those who have insurance. When hundreds of thousands lost their jobs after Katrina, they lost health care as well. A recent free medical treatment fair opened their doors at 6 a.m. and stopped signing people up at 8 a.m. because they had already filled the 700 available slots for the day.
Mental health is worse. A report by the World Health Organization estimates that serious and mild to moderate mental illness doubled among survivors in the year after Hurricane Katrina. Despite a suicide rate triple what it was a year ago, the New York Times reported ten months after the storm that New Orleans had still lost half of its psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists and other mental health care workers.
In the months after Katrina, the 534 psychiatric beds that had been in metro New Orleans shrank to fewer than 80. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveyed the area and found 45 percent of residents were experiencing "significant stress or dysfunction" and another 25 percent were worse off.
By default, the lack of mental health treatment facilities has forced more of these crises towards law enforcement. "The lack of mental health options forced the New Orleans Police Department to incarcerate mentally ill people who normally would have been taken to Charity," said James Arey, commander of the NOPD crisis negotiation team. "The only other option is to admit them into emergency rooms ill-equipped to handle psychotics who may have to wait days for care. This is past the point of being unsafe," Arey said. "It's just a matter of time before a mental patient goes berserk in one of the ERs and hurts some people."
With day care scarce - down 70 percent - and public transportation down 83 percent from the number of pre-Katrina buses, there is little chance for single moms with kids.
It is impossible to begin to understand the continued impact of Katrina without viewing through the lenses of race, gender and poverty. Katrina exposed the region's deep-rooted inequalities of gender, race, and class. Katrina did not create the inequalities; it provided a window to see them more clearly. But the aftermath of Katrina has aggravated these inequalities. In fact, if you plot race, class and gender, you can likely tell who has returned to New Orleans. The Institute of Women's Policy Research pointed out "The hurricanes uncovered America's longstanding structural inequalities based on race, gender, and class and laid bare the consequences of ignoring these underlying inequalities."
The pre-Katrina population of 454,000 people in the City of New Orleans dropped to 187,000. The African-American population of New Orleans shrank by 61 percent, or 213,000 people, from a pre-Katrina total of 302,000 down to 89,000. New Orleans now has a much smaller, older, whiter and more affluent population.
Crime plagues parts of the city, and every spoke of the criminal justice wheel is broken. Hundreds of police left the force, and several were just indicted for first degree murder of an unarmed mentally retarded man during Katrina. When the accused police reported to jail, they were accompanied by hundreds of fellow officers holding up signs calling them heroes. The district attorney and the police are openly feuding and pointing fingers at each other. Judges are fighting with the new public defender system. Victims and witnesses are still displaced. People accused of serious crimes walk out of jail because of incompetence and the fear of witnesses to cooperate with police.
Others are kept in jail too long because they are lost in the system. For example, Pedro Parra-Sanchez was arrested six days after he arrived in New Orleans to find work in October 2005. He got into a fight and allegedly stabbed a man with a beer bottle. He went through the local temporary jail in a bus station and two other Louisiana prisons. Under Louisiana law he was supposed to be charged within 60 days or released. However, he never went to court or saw a lawyer. When he did not show up for his original arraignment date last May, a warrant was put out for his arrest, but he was already incarcerated. He was found by a Tulane Law Clinic attorney and was released in November 2006. Lost in the system, he was doing what they call in the courthouse "Katrina time."
Though crime is issue number one in most of the city, crime is not the cause of a city dying. Crime is a symptom of a city dying. Crime is the sound of a city dying.
There are major problems with the drinking water system eighteen months after Katrina. According to the City of New Orleans, hundreds of miles of underground pipes were damaged by 480 billion pounds of water that sat in the city after Katrina. They were further damaged by the uprooting of tens of thousands of trees whose roots were wrapped around the pipes.
The City of New Orleans now loses more water than it uses, because of faulty pipes and joints in the delivery system. More than 135 million gallons are being pumped out daily but only 50 million gallons are being used, leaving 85 million gallons "unaccounted for and probably leaking out of the system." The daily cost of the water leaking away in thousands of leaks is about $200,000 a day.
The second major water problem is that the leakage makes maintaining adequate water pressure extremely difficult and costly, particularly in tall office buildings. Water pressure in New Orleans is estimated at half that of other cities, creating significant problems in consumption, sanitation, air-conditioning and fire prevention.
Insurance costs are skyrocketing for homes and businesses. So are rents. Though low-wage jobs pay a little more than before Katrina, they do not pay enough for people to afford rent.
The overall planning process for the rebuilding of New Orleans has been derailed by several competing planning operations. The mayor initially created a Bring New Orleans Back Commission, which met for months. While the Bring New Orleans Back Commission was operating, the Urban Land Institute, a think tank based in Washington, DC, created and released a report of recommendations in January 2006. After several months of hearings, the Bring New Orleans Back Commission issued a report from the mayor's office, but it was never funded. In April 2006, the New Orleans City Council awarded a federally funded $2.9 million grant to a Miami consultant to create a plan for the 49 neighborhoods of New Orleans. A fourth planning process, the Unified New Orleans Plan, was launched in spring 2006 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation to integrate all the planning processes. In September 2006, the New Orleans City Council plan was released, while the UNOP process was just getting underway - that fourth plan is starting to wind up now.
These problems spread throughout the Gulf Coast, far beyond their most graphic illustrations in New Orleans. As Oxfam documented, government neglect has plagued the rebuilding of smaller towns like Biloxi, Mississippi, and rural parishes of Louisiana, leaving the entire region in distress. In Biloxi, the first to be aided after the hurricane were the casinos, which forced low-income people out of their homes and neighborhoods. In rural Louisiana, contradictory signals by government agencies have slowed progress, and in some cases reversed it. Small, independent family commercial-fishing businesses have been imperiled by the lack of recovery funds. The federal assistance that has occurred has tended to favor the affluent and those with economic assets.
Visitors to New Orleans can still stay in fine hotels and dine at great restaurants. But less than a five-minute drive away lie miles of devastated neighborhoods that shock visitors. Locals call it "the Grand Canyon effect" - you know about it, you have seen it on TV, but when you see it in person it can take your breath away.
Our community continues to take hope from the resilience of our people. Despite lack of federal, state and local assistance, people are living their lives and repairing their homes. People are organizing. Many fight for better levee protection. Some work for affordable housing. Some are workers collectively seeking better job conditions. Neighborhoods are coming together to fight for basic services. Small-business owners are working together to secure grants and low-cost rebuilding loans. Others organize against crime.
We graciously accept the kindnesses of strangers who come by the hundreds every day to help us gut and rebuild our homes. Churches, synagogues and mosques from around the country come to partner with local congregations to rebuild and resource their sisters and brothers.
The new Congress appears poised to give us a hand. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), head of the House subcommittee overseeing HUD, delivered pointed questions and criticisms to federal, state and local foot-draggers recently and promised a new day.
Young people are particularly outraged and activated by what they see - they give us hope. Over a thousand law students alone will come to the Gulf Coast area to volunteer over spring break with the Student Hurricane Network.
Connections between the lack of resources for Katrina rebuilding and Iraq and Afghanistan are clear to everyone on the Gulf Coast.
Despite guarantees of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement that people displaced through no fault of their own have the right to return to their homes and to expect the government to help them do so, far too little progress has been made.
As Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Missouri) of Kansas City observed in a recent public hearing, "When it is all said and done, there has been a lot more said than done."
But still, each day, Ms. Debra South Jones and her volunteers drive into New Orleans east to dish out hot food and groceries to people in need. In the past eighteen months, they have given out over three million pounds of food to more than 130,000 families. We never dreamed we would be still be so needy eighteen months after Katrina. We look forward to the day when she will not have to feed us, when we will not need volunteers to gut and fix up our homes, when we can feed ourselves in our own fixed-up homes in a revitalized New Orleans.
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Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He can be reached at Quigley@loyno.edu. If you would like to learn more about Ms. Debra South Jones and the work of her organization, Just the Right Attitude, see http://www.jtra.org/.
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Home Festivals New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Lives!
Jazz Police - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... After hurricane Katrina, Jazz Fest took an even greater meaning and urgency as a symbol of the rebirth of the great city of New Orleans. ...
New Orleans Summer Post Katrina In Slow Motion
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... year at this time, New Orleans was as hot as it gets. Movies were being made by the dozens. Even Mayor Nagin played a cameo role in a flick before Katrina hit. ...
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Ecological effects of Gulf Coast hurricanes
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA
... storm satellite imagery that suggests that Hurricane Katrina may have ... to have recovered to pre-Katrina conditions, in ... water pumped out of New Orleans and into ...
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New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA
... down 26 percent from 38,300 pre-Katrina, said Darius ... Gulf Coast during the height of hurricane season ... now people are shying away from New Orleans, wondering if ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
07/11/2006 NOLA News
Gov. Bush: Tampa Better Prepared Than New Orleans
WFtv.com - Orlando,FL,USA
TAMPA, Fla. -- Could the west coast of Florida see the kind of hurricane destruction seen in New Orleans ? The answer is yes, if ...
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Tenet to Upgrade Hospitals; Sell Others
MSN Money - USA
... person has heard of Dallas-based Tenet, it's more likely because more than 40 bodies were found at one of its hospitals in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Storming after Katrina villains
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
Less than a year has passed since Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the city of New Orleans and the Gulf coasts of three American states; yet the storm has ...
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First Post-Katrina 'Sustainable Building' Project Breaks Ground in ...
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... position to respond to the housing crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina. To be able to help make this tremendous project a reality in New Orleans is incredible ...
HUD, Louisiana Blanco, New Orleans Nagin Announce 4.2 Bil.
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS - Housing and Urban Development Deputy Secretary Roy A. Bernardi and Chairman Donald E. Powell, Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding ...
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Corps felling trees along levees
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... in New Orleans south of Lakeshore Drive, are live oaks and pines. But whatever other purpose a tree may serve, corps officials say Hurricane Katrina showed ...
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South Asian Women's Forum - New Delhi,India
Nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the city still does not have a plan for rebuilding. NEW ORLEANS, United ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
07/10/2006 NOLA News
New Orleans Begins Cleanup of Abandoned Cars
NPR - USA
All Things Considered, July 10, 2006 · Nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, the state of Louisiana has finally started hauling way ...
Confusion, hope as more students register for New Orleans schools
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... wondering will the school system work better since the hurricane," Thomas said ... Before Katrina, New Orleans public schools were among the worst in the nation and ...
First Major Trade Show in New Orleans Since Hurricane Katrina is a ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... official services contractor of the American Library Association's (ALA) Annual Conference; the first major trade show in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. ...
National Guard presence hurts New Orleans image
New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA
... healthy and speedy recovery. Yet we all know New Orleans was beset by crime long before Katrina struck. And we know that despite ...
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Haltom grad a big fish at New Orleans aquarium
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... High School, has been active in bringing sea life back to the New Orleans Aquarium of the Americas, where many fish died after Hurricane Katrina devastated the ...
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Dog adopted after storm returning to New Orleans family
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
— A Doylestown family that adopted a dog found in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is returning him to the New Orleans family that lost him. ...
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FINDING MY RELIGION Sallie Ann Glassman, a Vodou priestess in New ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... You chose not to evacuate from New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina struck, in part because you were concerned about how members of your temple would fare. ...
New Orleans Bands Bring Sounds of "Big Easy" to Festival
Washington File - Washington,DC,USA
... Trumpet player Alvarez "BIG Al" Huntley described his odyssey while evacuating New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Huntley said ...
Liberty Bank still strong despite storm setbacks
New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA
... administrative staff are settling back into their headquarters on Plaza Drive in eastern New Orleans. Repairs to the building Hurricane Katrina put underwater ...
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Tourism recovery buoys New Orleans
New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA
... Now, 10 months after Hurricane Katrina begrimed the New Orleans image as a tourism Mecca, the once-unrivaled destination brand name is being rebuilt. ...
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... City of Hope: New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina will open on Tuesday, July 18, at the Williams Gallery , 533 Royal Street . The ...
07/09/2006 NOLA News
Entergy New Orleans proposes 25% rate increase
Louisiana Weekly - New Orleans,LA,USA
... is what customers of Entergy can expect if the New Orleans City Council ... 60 percent of its customer base and sustaining heavy damage from Hurricane Katrina. ...
Could Tampa Bay be the next New Orleans?
Palm Beach Post - FL, United States
... New Orleans will take years to recover from Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,000 and caused an economic loss of $125 billion. ...
New Orleans entices summer visitors with fun, discounts
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... New Orleans All Over Again.” By now just about everyone in the world knows the city is still struggling with enormous problems left by Hurricane Katrina. ...
War museum a life jacket for New Orleans
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
Howitzer cannon, the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans has officially changed ... Since Hurricane Katrina hit 10 months ago, tourism has dropped off and left ...
National Black Chamber of Commerce to meet in New Orleans
Louisiana Weekly - New Orleans,LA,USA
Actively involved with the businesses affected by Hurricane Katrina, in April 2006 ... Before Katrina, New Orleans was a place of great diversity and excellence. ...
The next real-estate boom: New Orleans
Seattle Times - United States
NEW ORLEANS — In a market spurred by speculators and bargain hunters, an ... analysts, who say volume and sales prices exceed levels before Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Louisiana senator considers using ships as storm barrier
Houston Chronicle - United States
NEW ORLEANS - Marine scientists and Louisiana officials are floating the idea of ... In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana is considering every option ...
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Commentary: After 10 months, New Orleans set to make a plan
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA
Some 10 months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed thousands of homes in New Orleans, Mayor C. Ray Nagin announced this past week that his office, the city ...
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Tulane, UNO struggle to recruit in Katrina's wake
ESPN - USA
... And it doesn't help that every time New Orleans is on the news something bad seems to be happening.''. Following Hurricane Katrina stories of crime and murder ...
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Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... in the New Orleans area more than two decades, the couple left town with their 12-year-old daughter last month, joining a summertime surge in Hurricane Katrina- ...
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Saturday, July 08, 2006
07/08/2006 NOLA News
Investors Lead Home Sale Boom in New Orleans
New York Times - United States
... the storm, Jennifer and Rodney Greenup lived in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans, in a ... It was appraised for nearly $240,000 before Hurricane Katrina. ...
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'The Great Deluge'
New York Times - United States
... Hurricane Katrina - a possible Category 5 storm - was headed toward New Orleans and the shelter had a total population of 263 stray pets, ranging from boxers ...
Missed opportunity: Houston deserves a chance to host the Essence ...
Houston Chronicle - United States
Planners of the Essence Music Festival, a popular New Orleans institution, chose to bring the event to Houston after Hurricane Katrina damaged the Superdome. ...
New Orleans residents get Katrina tattoos
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
NEW ORLEANS - Sean Jeffries never thought he'd feel so strongly about something ... were trapped in a city that spiraled into chaos following Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Second lawsuit blasts east NO landfill
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... court to attempt to force the closure of another eastern New Orleans dumping site ... tracked a permit for Old Gentilly in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, citing an ...
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Jobless Katrina evacuees spur 'deadbeat' debate
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... who wants what he calls “deadbeat” evacuees from New Orleans out of ... the city’s southwest pocket where many of 150,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees settled ...
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New Orleans City Attorney Addresses Cars Controversies
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... s Office of New Orleans, at the request of the New Orleans City Council ... subsequent disposition of vehicles donated to the City in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Ominous New Orleans and Louisiana Clouds as Hurricane Season ...
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... committed to the type of hurricane protection that ... rates have reportedly tripled post Katrina and there ... Those living in New Orleans and Louisiana this summer ...
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Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... Strain has said his comments were meant to alert St. Tammany residents about possible "spillover crime" from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Thursday, July 06, 2006
07/06/2006 NOLA News
Orkin Donates Time, Services to Treat Mold-Damaged New Orleans ...
PCT Online - USA
ATLANTA — Almost a year after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated New Orleans, the after-effects of extensive flooding and roof damage continue to ...
Baptist churches unite to rebuild New Orleans congregations
Associated Baptist Press - Jacksonville,FL,USA
... The group also helped reimburse churches outside New Orleans that housed or fed Katrina evacuees, putting a strain on the host congregations' budgets. ...
New Orleans offers new rebuilding plan
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mayor Ray Nagin and community leaders announced Wednesday an ... plans for this city still struggling to rebuild from Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans family files lawsuit to get dogs back
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... Fighting in the court of public opinion didn’t work, so a New Orleans family has taken its fight to regain two dogs lost in Hurricane Katrina to the Pinellas ...
New Orleans Rap Group Sqad Up Readies for New Album 'We Here Now'
Top40-Charts.com - Ricking,NY,USA
New Orleans, LA ... ways with Flip as well to focus solely on the new album without ... has thrown at them and even more heartfelt the devastation of Katrina, (all four ...
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Realtors® Register for New Orleans Convention at Record Pace
RisMedia.com (press release) - Norwalk,CT,USA
... Bill Clinton, co-chairs of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, will address the General Session of the 2006 REALTORS® Conference & Expo in New Orleans on Saturday ...
Hill, McGraw resume tour in New Orleans
KLFY - Lafayette,LA,USA
... about the lack of progress in hurricane-torn New Orleans. Proceeds from their tour will be donated to a charity run by the artists benefiting Katrina victims.
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Library Convention helps New Orleans recover from Hurricane ...
Travel Daily News International - Athens,Greece
With the eyes of America on New Orleans’ recovery from Hurricane Katrina, nearly 17,000 librarians, exhibitors and library supporters attended the first ...
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New Orleans July 4th: Fireworks, Crime and Protest
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... Katrina changed so much yet, so little. ... The mindless crime and civil unrest was reality shooting New Orleans and all involved into the present full of current ...
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
07/04/2006 NOLA News
Kate Hudson wants a home in New Orleans
Fametastic - UK
... in New Orleans after falling in love with the city while filming Skeleton Key there last year - but is worried it won’t be the same after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Flood Gates Closure Could Cause New Orleans Street Flooding
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
Should a substantial hurricane or storm hit the New Orleans area and if the flood ... However, nothing could be compared to Katrina as the US Army Corps levees ...
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Many at festival say they would prefer New Orleans
Houston Chronicle - United States
And for many die-hard fans of the three-day Essence Music Festival, who made their first trek to Houston, they hope next July it will return to New Orleans. ...
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Public Housing Redevelopment Sparks Multi-City Protest & Lawsuit
Louisiana Weekly - New Orleans,LA,USA
... the HUD plan. Prior to Katrina, New Orleans was ranked 38th in urban population, but was fifth in number of public housing units. ...
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New Orleans and Louisiana Essence of July 4
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
New Orleans and Louisiana are enjoying Independence Day after experiencing the most ... history—with the double blow of major catastrophes, Katrina and Rita ...
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07/03/2006 NOLA News
WC Retro: Dreaming a New New Orleans, Version 1
WorldChanging - USA
... The poor of New Orleans have suffered the worst of the worst, starting well before Katrina; the New New Orleans must promise them a much better life. ...
HUDSON HOUSE HUNTING IN NEW ORLEANS
Contactmusic.com - Burley in Wharfdale,Ilkley,UK
KATE HUDSON is hoping to help the post-Hurricane Katrina effort in New Orleans, Louisiana by buying property in the devastated city. ...
Louisiana A Wi-Fi Hurricane Vacuum While New Orleans Readies
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... general public in the event they are being displaced during the next Katrina.. ... Calif and is building similar Wi-Fi networks in New Orleans , Philadelphia , San ...
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Nagin says New Orleans is recovering
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... at the Essence Music Festival's empowerment seminars, being held outside New Orleans for the first time because of lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Guard, State Police Make New Orleans Safe
Washington Post - United States
... Steve Dabadie at the temporary police headquarters in New Orleans on Monday, July ... considered the worst criminals in the city before Hurricane Katrina struck on ...
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New Orleans sailor feels at home
PensacolaNewsJournal.com - FL
For the first time since Hurricane Katrina hit her hometown, Meredith Provensal felt at home Sunday. The New Orleans native was one of dozens of competitors in ...
Robin is Batman in New Orleans
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
... We shot the whole series in New Orleans, and one thing is certain, the ... The French Quarter, fortunately, was not engulfed during Hurricane Katrina, which means ...
New Orleans opens heart to librarians
Frederick News Post (subscription) - Frederick,MD,USA
... executive director of Frederick County Public Libraries, said he was pleased to be at the first major convention in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. ...
New Orleans Katrina Rebuild Control: Blanco, Nagin, Bush and ...
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
... Was he referring to not-for-profit agencies like the New Orleans Foundation who have ... it, Bush was doing such a poor job keeping track of Katrina rebuild that ...
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07/02/2006 NOLA News
White House suitors deluge New Orleans
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... primary and caucuses, the Gulf Coast region ravaged by Hurricane Katrina has emerged ... walked amid the rubble of what were once homes in New Orleans neighborhoods ...
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New Orleans fans put faith in a new Saint
MSNBC - USA
... Reggie Bush did not watch Katrina. ... 29, 2005, gazing at the destruction of New Orleans. He saw the pictures of the flood, caught some clips on television. ...
A Sign That New Orleans Is Finally Getting Back On Its Feet
Deadspin - New York,NY,USA
... know if you’d call him a marquee free agent, but for New Orleans/Oklahoma City ... over five years, in what may be a gross misappropriation of Katrina relief funds ...
Ex-New Orleans mayor says city still in crisis
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Less than half of New Orleans' pre-Katrina population of 455,000 has returned and many of the most devastated neighborhoods, where people have not been able to ...
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Crisis of culture in New Orleans
Chicago Tribune - United States
... At first glance, a semblance of cultural stability has returned to New Orleans, 10 months after Hurricane Katrina shattered the city. ...
Signs of life in New Orleans
Houston Chronicle - United States
... and the difference between this gang — the first major post-Katrina convivium — and ... to read too much into this, but it's a sign that New Orleans is ready ...
New Orleans neighborhood sees spike in crime
Baltimore Sun - United States
... the downtown New Orleans business district, the Central City neighborhood has long been the scene of drug traffickers' turf wars. Since Hurricane Katrina, it ...
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New Orleans schools to see drastic changes
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... Improving public schools is a key part of efforts to rebuild the post-Katrina economy of the New Orleans area and southeast Louisiana. ...
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Six Flags offers deal to exit New Orleans
United Press International - USA
... reports. Six Flags New Orleans was devastated during Hurricane Katrina. Six Flags originally said it hoped to reopen the property. ...
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Katrina shocks New Orleans visitors 10 months on
ABC News - USA
He had read the newspapers, watched TV and talked with friends about the devastation wreaked on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. ...
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07/01/2006 NOLA News
New Orleans fear summer storms may flood city
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
NEW ORLEANS: Never mind the hurricanes, it is rain New Orleans has to fear, say residents who fear inadequate repairs from Hurricane Katrina have opened the ...
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Harsh reality of city's ruin mingles with sense of hope
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... disabled sister to have a heart attack and die a few months after Katrina. ... We drive back to New Orleans through the Lower Ninth Ward along Claiborne and North ...
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New Orleans Will Be A Presidential and Congress Election Issue
Bayou Buzz - Metairie,LA,USA
For many reasons they should. Over ten months post Katrina, the city of New Orleans is destroyed and the money has only trickled. ...
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GI Joe Drops in on New Orleans
ABC News - USA
... June 30, 2006 -- New Orleans routinely rolls out the red carpet for conventions ... after $60 million was spent on repairs and renovations after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Chased Out of New Orleans, Confederate Is Rising Again
New York Times - United States
... Real horror, in the form of Hurricane Katrina, intervened. Now Confederate has moved within the old Confederacy, from New Orleans to Birmingham, Ala., not far ...
A Visit with the Soul Queen of New Orleans
NPR - USA
Weekend Edition - Saturday, July 1, 2006 · For a brief time, singer Irma Thomas, a New Orleans icon, was feared missing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ...
Six Flags wants out of New Orleans agreement
KLFY - Lafayette,LA,USA
... owns Six Flags New Orleans does not want to reopen the flood-ravaged eastern New Orleans theme park ... The amusement park has been closed since Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Essence Fest moves from New Orleans to Houston
WKYT - Lexington,KY,USA
... Reliant Park is the same venue that became temporary home to thousands of New Orleans evacuees last year after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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New Orleans’ Latino Health Outreach Project
Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
... Like most organizations that began in New Orleans after Katrina, we are struggling with our own transition from a stop-gap emergency response crew to a rooted ...
Historic black New Orleans college reclaims campus
Reuters - USA
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - One of New Orleans' historic black colleges reclaimed its campus from Hurricane Katrina on Saturday in a graduation ceremony at which ...
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