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Gulf Coast
‘Tis the Season
December 1, 2008 at 8:11 pm By: Loki Post a comment
During the holidays, the empty chairs remind us of the displaced.
Tags: community, Displacement, Gulf Coast, New Orleans, population, SE Louisiana
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As FEMA works to close out its emergency housing program, there is not enough housing for displaced people to go to.
Tags: FEMA, Gulf Coast, housing, Mississippi, temporary housing
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In September 2005, two weeks after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, a young senator from Illinois penned a public response to President Bush’s speech about the Gulf Coast rebuilding effort.
Tags: FEMA, Gulf Coast, Hurricane Katrina, obama, Rebuilding, toxic trailers
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A Maryland-based firm has been penalized for missing deadlines for disbursing grants to Mississippi residents trying to rebuild their homes.
Tags: deadlines, disbursement, grants, Gulf Coast, Mississippi, Reznick Group, withholding payment
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FEMA trailers, the home of last resort to many and tantalizingly out of reach to others, with their toxic-fume-filled interiors, are a symbol of the uphill battle we face on the Gulf Coast.
Tags: Amanda Spake, Beaumont, FEMA, formaldehyde, Gulf Coast, housing, Katrina Media Fellow, louisiana, Mississippi, Orange County, temporary housing, Texas, toxic fumes, trailers, U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt
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More fun and games with FEMA trailers, formaldehyde fumes, and misleading reporting.
Tags: FEMA, FEMA Trailers, formaldehyde, Gulf Coast, temporary housing, toxic, vapors
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Why most Gulf Coast residents seem to be against the bailout of Wall Street.
Tags: Bailout, economy, feelings, Gulf Coast, man on the street, Wall St
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Events that will greatly enhance your understanding of the aftermath of Katrina, Rita, and the failure of the New Orleans levees.
Tags: 23 Feet in 12 Minutes, Band on the Run in New Orleans, Best Music Writing 2008, Broooklyn, Deanna Pacelli, events, fundraiser, Gulf Coast, Joseph RodrÃguez, Kadir van Lohuizen, Larry Blumenfeld, Mari Brown, Nelson George, New Orleans, New York City, photgraphs, powerHouse, Stanley Greene, Still Here: Stories After Katrina, stories, The Bubble Lounge, The Half King, Those Who Fell Through the Cracks
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One of the biggest problems in the wake of disasters such as hurricanes Katrina and Gustav is communicating the facts and severity of the situation.
Tags: advertising, engagement, Gulf Coast, Hurricane Gustav, hurricane ike, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, levee failure, media, New Orleans
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Why do so many of us refuse to leave when a hurricane approaches?
Tags: Bret Anthony Johnson, Evacuation, Galveston, Gulf Coast, Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Katrina, mentality, New Orleans, NPR, psychology, This American Life
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Well, Bert, it sounds like you don’t live on the Gulf Coast to me. The fact that investigations are...
Bert, It has actually been almost 4 years. time flies when your rebuilding an entire City.
It’s been two years… get over it. Time to take stock of what you have been given. All that aid...
It will be a good work by the engineers if they have restored the wetlands. —- sathyan louisiana...
The problem is not what happened after but what was done before with government and institutions...
Laura, the answer to that is simple: the Gulf Coast is populated with a lot of conservative white...
Well, Laura I must confess that I have never quite understood voting patterns here in the Deep South. In...
Loki, why do you think the majority of the coastal states voted for McCain, given Bush’s sad...
One should never rely on the Corps of Engineers to do anything efficiently. Too bad we’ve come to...
Funny…when we lived in NYC for four years, I knew that we would eventually move back to New...