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In New Orleans, Levees' Brawn in Dispute

Government and independent engineers disagreed Thursday when pressed by a U.S. House subcommittee on whether levees are safe enough for residents to rebuild in areas struck by severe flooding during Hurricane Katrina. Complete Story

New Orleans Housing Unwelcoming to Some

Even before Hurricane Katrina hit, the city's public housing projects were sinkholes of crime and despair.

Katrina Evacuees Try to Get Dogs Back

A New Orleans couple who left their two dogs at a shelter when fleeing Hurricane Katrina went to court to get the pets back from two women who each adopted one.

Faith Hill, Tim McGraw to Resume Tour

After a bout with bronchitis, Tim McGraw was ready to take the stage Wednesday with wife Faith Hill as they prepared to resume their summer concert tour in the Big Easy and give all proceeds to Hurricane Katrina victims.

Dozens of Katrina Victims Unidentified

Ten months after Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana coast, 49 people found dead in the floodwater remain unidentified, the Orleans Parish coroner said Wednesday.

Katrina Spawns Cottage Industry

Hurricane Katrina has spawned a real cottage industry, catering to the tens of thousands of families still crammed in government-issued trailers 10 months after the storm.

Nagin Says New Orleans Is Recovering

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday his city is recovering and that people have been "hoodwinked and bamboozled" into believing it won't be rebuilt. Nagin spoke at the Essence Music Festival's empowerment seminars, being held outside New Orleans for the first time because of lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Weather Service Wins Praise for Forecasts

The Weather Service's performance during last year's devastating Hurricane Katrina won overall praise for accuracy in an internal review, which called for backup means of communications in such disasters.

Morial: N.O. Housing Must Be Addressed

Strides in housing and education must be made for Hurricane Katrina evacuees to return to New Orleans, National Urban League President Marc Morial said Sunday.

Officer and Suspect Die in Ga. Shootout

A police officer was fatally wounded in a foot-chase-turned-shootout that also killed the man he was pursuing at a cluster of apartment buildings where many Hurricane Katrina victims were relocated.

Flood Evacuees Take Lesson From Katrina

Residents driven from their homes in some of the region's worst flooding in decades said the destructive power unleashed when Hurricane Katrina breached levees in New Orleans last year convinced them that it's better to be safe than sorry.

Post-Katrina Looters Get 15-Year Sentences

Three people convicted of hauling away liquor, wine and beer from a grocery store after Hurricane Katrina were sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison.

Red Cross Criticizes Itself Over Katrina

Overwhelmed volunteers, inflexible attitudes and inadequate anti-fraud measures are among the many shortcomings acknowledged by the American Red Cross in a candid and comprehensive new report assessing its response to Hurricane Katrina.

Miss. Woman Makes Priceless Katrina Find

Hurricane Katrina washed away the home and possessions of newlyweds Annie Bazoon-Singleton and Rivers Singleton.

Sailors' Data on Internet Tied to Katrina

The Navy says that some of the sailors and families whose personal data was discovered last week on a civilian Web site had been affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Red Cross Gets Surge in Katrina Volunteers

Less than a month after signing up as a Red Cross volunteer in Georgia, 67-year-old Al Lucas went to a Louisiana shelter filled with hundreds who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina.

Katrina Victim Found in New Orleans House

The body of a man who apparently drowned in the floods that followed Hurricane Katrina was found under furniture in his once-flooded house, the coroner's chief investigator said.

No Leads Yet in Fatal New Orleans Shooting

Detectives knocked on doors Sunday in a search for anyone with information on the killings of five teenagers gunned down in a blaze of semiautomatic gunfire. Police had no new leads to the killers, said police Capt. John Bryson.

5 Teens Die in New Orleans Shooting

Five people ranging in age from 16 to 19 were killed in a street shooting early Saturday, the most violent crime reported in this slowly repopulating city since Hurricane Katrina hit last August.

Hooters Wants to Pay FEMA for Champagne

The Hooters restaurant chain has a $200 check ready for FEMA, reimbursement for a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne bought with Hurricane Katrina relief money. FEMA will be happy to have the money back.

Museum Collecting Katrina Artifacts

A severe storm alert, an evacuation-route marker and a sign bearing the high-water mark of flooding in New Orleans are among about 60 objects around which the National Museum of American History plans to build an exhibit on Hurricane Katrina.

HUD to Demolish Some La. Housing Projects

The federal government said Wednesday it will demolish some of the largest public housing projects in New Orleans, using the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to help improve poor, crime-ridden neighborhoods.

Usher Helps Clean Up New Orleans School

Five-time Grammy winning R&B; artist Usher pulled on some work gloves, grabbed a pair of trimmers and chopped away at a patch of vines that had overtaken a fence at a New Orleans school shuttered by Hurricane Katrina.

AFL-CIO Plans Investment in La. Projects

The AFL-CIO plans to invest $700 million in housing and other projects to help rebuild this city left staggered by housing shortages and other infrastructure problems after Hurricane Katrina.

Highlights of Iraq-Hurricane Relief Bill

Here are key elements of a compromise House-Senate $94.5 billion spending bill for Iraq, Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina recovery passed Tuesday by the House:

The Wire

Liberals are racist, study suggests

Source: opinionjournal.com

Two weeks ago, we noted an article by the Washington Post's Richard Morin, who conducted a study along with Shanto Iyengar of Stanford University that purported to find that Americans' attitudes toward Katrina victims were colored by race, to the disadvantage of blacks.. .

Katrina Compassion Drives Disaster Donations to a Record

Source: washingtonpost.com

Fueled by an outpouring for victims of Hurricane Katrina and other catastrophes around the globe, charitable giving to disaster relief rose to a record level last year, according to a survey released today.

US storm fraudsters paid $1.4bn

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

The US government gave up to $1.4bn in bogus assistance to hurricane victims last year, an investigation reveals. The Federal Emergency Management Agency was tricked into funding hundreds of fraudulent schemes, the report said.

Email to Brown claims Bush was happy former FEMA head was taking heat for Katrina response

Source: rawstory.com

An "embarrasing email" leaked by former FEMA head Michael Brown to CNN quotes President Bush as saying at a Cabinet meeting held shortly after Katrina that he was pleased that Brown was taking most of the heat for the federal government's roundly criticized response to the hurri …

Hurricane Tracking Map Powered by Google

Source: hurricane.stormreportmap.com

An interesting Hurricane Tracking Map for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico powered by Google

Two lost dogs from St. Bernard High School need help finding their way home

Source: network.bestfriends.org

help the people helping the animals

Pork Storm

Source: forbes.com

Federal officials are porking out on more than $15 million worth of all sorts of unrelated goodies for themselves, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense.

$500 million Northrop Grumman aid in bill is passed in Senate

Source: clarionledger.com

So, all those donations do pay off after all. Northrop Grumman will get $500 million in government relief due to damages caused by Hurricane Katrina.

One-third of young Americans wonder: Where is Louisiana?

Source: knoxnews.com

Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans recently polled couldn't locate Louisiana on a map, and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi.

New Orleans: Dispatches From the Gulf Region

Source: alternet.org

Safe Streets, Strong Communities, a New Orleans-based criminal justice reform coalition has just released a report (.pdf) based on more than 100 recent interviews with prisoners who had been locked up before Katrina and are currently spread across 13 prisons and hundreds of miles.

While Washington Slept

Source: vanityfair.com

The Queen of England is afraid. International C.E.O.'s are nervous. And the scientific establishment is loud and clear. If global warming isn't halted, rising sea levels could submerge coastal cities by 2100. So how did this virtual certainty get labeled a "liberal hoax"?

Dean says Bush "cut and run" on Katrina

Source: go.reuters.com

Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said on Saturday the Bush administration had "cut and run" on Gulf Coast hurricane recovery and created a political legacy of deficits, divisiveness and deceit.

Katrina evacuees testing patience in Texas

Source: upi.com

Signs of impatience with evacuees from Hurricane Katrina are beginning to appear in Houston, which is the new home for 150,000 displaced Louisianans.

Deep-Fried America

Source: seedmagazine.com

Chris Mooney takes a look at how global warming will change the United States and, with time, American politics.

Katrina evacuees cast early ballots

Source: cnn.com

Hundreds of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Texas and other states boarded buses and traveled to Louisiana on Monday to cast early ballots in New Orleans' storm-delayed election for mayor.

New Orleans Recovery projected at up to 25 years

Source: boston.com

A full recovery in New Orleans could take 25 years as homeowners, businesses, and tourists are coaxed back to the city devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration's Gulf Coast recovery coordinator said yesterday.

New Orleans sits atop a giant landslide

Source: Geology magazine

Roy Dokka, of LSU fame, has published an article in the April issue of Geology with his findings that New Orleans is at the north end of what looks like a gigantic, slow-moving landslide headed for the Gulf of Mexico.

Cleaning Up New Orleans

Source: gulfcoast-girl.blogspot.com

A co-worker of mine is spending this week in New Orleans in the Chalmette area (St. Bernard Parish), volunteering with Habitat for Humanity to aid in the clean-up effort. She has been blogging her experiences.

Emotional Devastation of Katrina Rising

Source: Technorati

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita combined with forecasted levee failures have obliterated your homes, your records, broken apart your families, scattered you across the country, and the United States of America has not provided you with relief, safety, security, and certainly no recove

Op-Ed: Who Is Killing New Orleans?

Source: thenation.com

Mike Davis writes that mayor-appointed commissions and experts, mostly white and Republican, propose to radically shrink and reshape a majority-black and Democratic city.

Houston Grows Weary of Katrina Evacuees

Source: Reuters

A recent poll indicates that Houstonians are starting to lose their love for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

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