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NEW ORLEANS - The harshly worded legal ruling last week that held the Army Corps of Engineers responsible for much of the flooding during Hurricane Katrina could have a far-reaching effect on national flood-control policies and on the federal government' Full Article at Philadelphia Inquirer
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Email Russ. Since Les Miles landed at LSU, we have been impressed. Full Article at Scout.com
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Map compares the current state of New Orleans to before Hurricane Katrina struck in August. View Photo »
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The harshly worded legal ruling this week that held the Army Corps of Engineers responsible for much of the flooding during Hurricane Katrina could have far-reaching effects on national flood control policies and on the federal government’s long-held refusal to take responsibility for its errors….
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A blistering decision by Federal District Judge Stanwood Duval proves what a handful of environmental activists and investigative journalists have been saying for years: New Orleans didn't have to drown. Full Article at New York Daily News
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In her dream, Jennifer Hero is walking down the same sunny New Orleans street. It is not until she reaches St. Charles Avenue that she realizes the city is destroyed, and she is walking among ruins. Full Article at The New York Times
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Todd C. Northrop of Pascagoula was sentenced on Thursday to 10 months in prison and 2 years of supervised release for fraudulently claiming government assistance after Hurricane Katrina on a house he owned but did not live in. Full Article at The Clarion-Ledger
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Anthony Franz and Lucille Franz, plaintiffs in a lawsuit, listen during a news conference announcing the historic judgement where a federal judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' mismanagement of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was directly res... View Photo »
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We have relied on a collaborative programme with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where they are helping us set up a system that was used in the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and I think the system has already been tested and it is working perfectly well.
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A largely overlooked provision in the Senate bill would send $100 million to Louisiana to help it cover costs for Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor. Full Article at NECN
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WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders secured the last two votes to move ahead on historic health care legislation, clearing the way for a Saturday night showdown on President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative. In long-awaited speeches, centrist Sens. Full Article at NorthJersey.com
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Tanya Smith, left, and Anthony Franz, right, plaintiffs in a lawsuit, listen to attorney Pierce O'Donnell during a news conference in New Orleans, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.
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Tanya Smith, a plaintiff in a lawsuit that says that the Army Corps of Engineers can be held liable for flooding during Hurricane Katrina, stands outside of her renovated home near the levee that was washed away during the storm, Chalmette, La. , Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.
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An American flag is seen where a house stood before Hurricane Katrina struck at the Gulf Coast in Gulfport, Mississippi November 9, 2009.
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This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows the amphibious transport dock ship USS New York during commissioning ceremonies in New York Saturday Nov. 6, 2009. The ship has 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center towers forged into her bow.
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Port Authority Sgt. Christopher Bergman, center, a 9/11 first responder who lost friends in the attack, looks on as the USS New York, a Navy amphibious assault ship containing 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, gets formally commissioned in New York Saturday Nov. 7,...
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Port Authority Sgt. Christopher Bergman, center, a 9/11 first responder who lost friends in the attack, looks on as the USS New York, a Navy amphibious assault ship containing 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, gets formally commissioned in New York Saturday Nov. 7,...
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Port Authority Sgt. Christopher Bergman, a 9/11 first responder who lost friends in the attack, listens as the USS New York, a Navy amphibious assault ship containing 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, gets formally commissioned in New York Saturday Nov. 7, 2009.
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President Barack Obama greets the crowd after participating in a town hall meeting at the University of New Orleans in New Orleans, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Obama is hearing directly from area people about Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
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President Barack Obama participates in a town hall meeting at the University of New Orleans in New Orleans, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. Obama is hearing directly from area people about Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
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The harshly worded legal ruling this week that held the Army Corps of Engineers responsible for much of the flooding during Hurricane Katrina could have far-reaching effects on national flood control policies and on the federal government’s long-held refusal to take responsibility for its errors….
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We have relied on a collaborative programme with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where they are helping us set up a system that was used in the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and I think the system has already been tested and it is working perfectly well.
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there should not be a surprise boost in Medicaid funding for states that have been declared disaster areas in the last seven years. If you look at what’s in that provision, you see the benefits those states (that are home to fence-sitting Democrats) will receive, especially Louisiana, which suffered fro...
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Furthermore, the Corps not only knew, but admitted by 1988, that the MRGO [Mississippi Gulf-River Outlet] threatened human life ... and yet it did not act in time to prevent the catastrophic disaster that ensued with the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina.
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The judge’s ruling today validates the feelings and beliefs that many citizens have held for four years ... Although the ruling is liberating for thousands impacted by the devastation and tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, it is my hope that justice will prevail to help families make their lives whole again.
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Failure to act now will put our society at an unacceptable risk ... You've only to think of Hurricane Katrina for an example of how climate change coupled with poor planning and zoning decisions can lead to social and economic disaster.
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I volunteered to go to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina (in 2005) to care for the pets there, so I know all too well that dogs can survive. Dogs there were found huddling underneath a porch for days.
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This is part of an almost $1 billion effort to construct or provide access to affordable housing in the Mississippi counties most affected by Hurricane Katrina
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It's tough ... It's early in the season, but you definitely want to show signs of improvement and stuff like that. This is the toughest thing I have endured in a while, because even my first two years, when I was in Oklahoma (after Hurricane Katrina), we did pretty well and we kept getting better. We ca...
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This wood is from New Orleans, from homes that didn't make it through Hurricane Katrina.
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There has been a renewed interest after Hurricane Katrina, after 9/11, after the advent of H1N1. People are realizing that we live in a very fragile world, and it doesn’t take much to disrupt it.
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defendants’ operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming . . . that in turn caused a rise in sea levels and added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina, which combined to destroy the plaintiffs’...
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Hurricane Katrina exposed a number of weaknesses within the agency, but those weaknesses are being addressed through the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, passed out of our committee, through Congress and signed by [President Bush] in 2006.
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Is the H1N1 pandemic the ‘Hurricane Katrina’ of our own laissez-faire, fend-for-yourself government?
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Aside from Louisiana and Mississippi, which lost population to other states because of Hurricane Katrina, California is the only Sunbelt state that had negative net internal migration after 2000. All the other states that lost population to internal migration were Rust Belt basket cases, including New Y...
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If swine flu starts sweeping the country and deaths start to mount, we may well be looking at a slow-motion Hurricane Katrina for the Obama administration ... Bush didn’t cause that hurricane but he bollixed the cleanup and paid the price. Obama will be held responsible if vaccine production remains a b...
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President Obama, said he would not repeat the Bush Administrations mistakes of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush was two days late to katrina; President Obama is nine months late in showing up to Toxic Chinese Drywall Hurricane, it is much worse than Hurricane Katrina, and his press aides have told the ...
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President Obama, said he would not repeat the Bush Administrations mistakes of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush was two days late to katrina; President Obama is nine months late in showing up to Toxic Chinese Drywall Hurricane, it is much worse than Hurricane Katrina, and his press aides have told the ...
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Following Hurricane Katrina (in 2005), me and my wife started our own foundation (Shelter for Serenity) and actually went to New Orleans, picked up a bunch of families and brought them back to live in our house in Utah ... We wanted to provide them a chance to restart their lives. But during this proces...
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I . . . talk about Haley Barbour, the Republican governor of Mississippi, who really has left no stone unturned going out to look for foreign investment ... I tell a story about Hurricane Katrina, which people know hit Mississippi very hard. But at the end of that week, he was already making calls to pl...
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I saw Hurricane Katrina first-hand, as a hospital volunteer in downtown New Orleans, and this is much worse. First of all, imported toxic Chinese drywall is lethal, and unlike Katrina, that came and went, there are 100,000's of US citizens living in homes so toxic, we fear ultimately the exposure will k...
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I'm really excited about having this opportunity to take a second group of students to New Orleans to see the reality of the city four years after Hurricane Katrina ... I want them to learn about the people's continued struggles, and hope that they will grow in their faith and commitment to justice.
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Ted Jackson and Jed Horne were in the eye of Hurricane Katrina, and they did truly heroic journalistic work in coverage of the storm and its aftermath in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast ... This will be an opportunity for the community to revisit Katrina and examine the Gulf Coast’s recovery.
SOURCE: Biloxi Sun Herald
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