Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster

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January 8, 2009 at 12:26 pm
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In New Orleans, the news of church closures has not been taken well.

January 6, 2009 at 10:51 am
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This indefatigable 53-year-old mom has shown that it is the average citizen—not government—that’s leading the recovery of New Orleans.

December 18, 2008 at 2:24 pm
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A look at St. Bernard Parish, as the first public housing redevelopment since Katrina gets started.

December 1, 2008 at 8:11 pm
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During the holidays, the empty chairs remind us of the displaced.

October 15, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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St. Charles Avenue, underneath one of the ubiquitous “Evacuation Route” signs.

September 6, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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While news cameras focus on New Orleans, the real damage of Hurricane Gustav goes ignored. The plight of the Houma Indians is one of those stories.

August 27, 2008 at 10:52 am
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As Hurricane Gustav approaches, so does a sense of deja vu.

August 18, 2008 at 2:09 pm
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Thinking back on all of the chaos the past three years has brought.

From Loki:
Well, Bert, it sounds like you don’t live on the Gulf Coast to me. The fact that investigations are...
From Bert's World:
Bert, It has actually been almost 4 years. time flies when your rebuilding an entire City.
From Bert:
It’s been two years… get over it. Time to take stock of what you have been given. All that aid...
From sathyan:
It will be a good work by the engineers if they have restored the wetlands. —- sathyan louisiana...
From Mario Tedde:
The problem is not what happened after but what was done before with government and institutions...
From YatPundit:
Laura, the answer to that is simple: the Gulf Coast is populated with a lot of conservative white...
From Loki:
Well, Laura I must confess that I have never quite understood voting patterns here in the Deep South. In...
From Laura:
Loki, why do you think the majority of the coastal states voted for McCain, given Bush’s sad...
From Marie:
One should never rely on the Corps of Engineers to do anything efficiently. Too bad we’ve come to...
From liprap:
Funny…when we lived in NYC for four years, I knew that we would eventually move back to New...