RT @Janiebt @WVUEFOX8 Trial opens for last officer in #Katrina shootings #usa #news #nopd #nola

Haley Barbour's shining legacy: Half Billion Dollar Restoration to Port Will Produce a Meager 330 jobs! #katrina

Lolita’s Family Photos #hungryblues #newontheblog #familyhistory #katrina

Pre-storm scenes in AD are hard to bare. #nola #katrina

RT @janiebt @ProPublica: Former cop sentenced in post-#Katrina #shooting of unarmed civilians at Danziger Bridge

RT @Janiebt @ProPublica Testimony: #NOLA police investigator knew about police involvement in post-#Katrina shooting

Trial Underway of Five #NewOrleans Cops for Post-#Katrina Shooting. (@ProPublica, @frontlinepbs)

TWO YEARS AFTER THE STORM: THE STATE OF KATRINA HOUSING RECOVERY ON THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST (PDF)

Media coverage of Hurricane Katrina raises questions about accurate representation and the resultant costs in human suffering. This article elucidates some of the documented facts related to Hurricane Katrina, its comparison to 9/11, and clarifies misconceptions of the initial relief effort and impact on those impacted by the Hurricane.

I question the media’s approach to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to the exclusion of other affected areas, and examine the effect this had on the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s recovery and rebuilding effort. As a mental health professional and building contractor, I was on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for one year after the storm and was heavily involved in the recovery effort. I was witness to the efforts made by communities and volunteers from all over the world, as well as the efforts from the federal and local governments. This article is intended to bring to light the well-documented history surrounding the regions most directly affected by the events of August 29, 2005.

Accountability. May there be more! // Police Charged in Post #Katrina Shootings and Cover-Up - #NOLA

I can’t talk about coffee houses and a coffee tour and not mention Cafe Du Monde. This was probably the number one place I ever had coffee.

Besides the fact that they are known for their long-standing coffee stand, chicory coffee, and beignets, they are located in the heart of New Orleans, Louisiana. I remember that I chose to not drink coffee on this trip, but gave in when we got to New Orleans. I couldn’t resist. It was raining that day (also was the 2-year anniversary of Katrina). The seating area inside, under the roof, is also open to the outside stree

For four years, Katrina survivors have been living in these toxic boxes. But there's more to this story than mere indifference or even incompetence - there was a concerted effort to push poor people out of the area after Katrina:

All of Pearlington was submerged during Hurricane Katrina, a circumstance created by its close proximity to the Gulf and the river while sitting directly underneath the eye of the storm. Every building flooded and the community had an estimated average st

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A boy named Isaiah Polk went off one day to see what he could see. He scaled a chain-link fence at the back of his tired FEMA trailer park, where fetid water gathers, and escaped into woods declared off-limits by his mother after reports of poisonous snak

Affordable housing and disaster insurance topped the legislative wish list of almost 20 Gulf Coast business people visiting Mississippi's congressional delegation Thursday.

Three new condominium developments are open and at least 30 others are proposed or under construction along Mississippi's Gulf Coast.

A U.S. appellate court on Tuesday delayed the release of 20 prisoners from New Orleans-area jails who are awaiting trial.

New Orleans — More than 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, many communities in Mississippi and Louisiana are still haggling with the Federal Emergency Management Agency over how much money the government will reimburse them for debris removal and infr

New Orleans trails Gulf Coast communities in hurricane recovery because of a failure of local leadership and a lack of affordable housing, a report issued by the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana and the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

HANCOCK COUNTY - A plan to move debris that could have generated millions of federal dollars to the county school district instead will soon make four local men millionaires.

The response to Mississippi's housing needs after Hurricane Katrina wasn't fast enough, state and local officials told a U.S. House subcommittee Saturday.

Under pressure from a federal lawsuit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency acknowledged yesterday that it does not know which Hurricane Katrina victims are living in more than 25,000 subsidized hotel rooms nationwide, or whether they have sought or be

The city's official blueprint for redevelopment after Hurricane Katrina, to be released on Wednesday, will recommend that residents be allowed to return and rebuild anywhere they like, no matter how damaged or vulnerable the neighborhood, according to sev

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It took months of sometimes contentious negotiation between city and community leaders, but the 2006 Carnival season officially began Friday with the heart-jumping call of the Soul Rebels Brass Band and an announcement that Zulu will roll and walk on Mard

Under the plan, proposed by Clerk of Criminal District Court Kimberly Williamson Butler's office, more than 50 precincts would be shifted to Municipal Auditorium and about 60 precincts would vote at Brother Martin High School on Elysian Fields Avenue. Tho

An Orleans Parish judge barred a local hotel from kicking out hurricane evacuees Saturday after a conflict arose at the St. Charles Avenue inn over those given shelter through a federal emergency lodging program.

Residents missing loved ones know that there are more dead yet to be uncovered in the debris, whose bodies would be wrongfully buried by demolition. Adding insult to injury, a history of redlining has left the land in the Lower 9th Ward not only low-lying

In response to interest in applying international standards to assess the human rights of Hurricane Katrina victims and make policy recommendations to address their needs, the U.S. Human Rights Network is coordinating a documentation project spearheaded b

With a cell phone crooked in her ear and scores of activists cheering her on in the 2000 block of Reynes Street, lawyer Tracie Washington sent a backhoe and its crew packing from the Lower 9th Ward Thursday morning.

With schools continuing to reopen for the second half of the year, thousands of people are returning but many are finding it difficult to find a place to live.

consolidating all property tax assessments in one office, reducing the City Council's authority over zoning and land-use decisions, and merging the civil and criminal court systems.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco, whose political standing nose-dived amid her administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, emerged Tuesday from a 17-day special legislative session with a string of victories on the state budget, business tax breaks, a statewide b

With deals like the Spangenbergs' moving forward, the real estate market is showing signs of life even in some of the neighborhoods that flooded.

Hurricane Katrina and the Bush administration's response to it were the main topics at the 29th annual Legislative Conference of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators.

More than three months after thousands of people lost their homes in Hurricane Katrina, local and federal officials are trading blame over the slow delivery of trailer housing.

Black survivors of Hurricane Katrina said Tuesday that racism contributed to the slow disaster response, at times likening themselves in emotional congressional testimony to victims of genocide and the Holocaust.

It was Thursday, Sept. 1, three days after Hurricane Katrina had ripped across the Gulf Coast. As New Orleans descended into horror, the top aides to Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Louisiana were certain the White House was trying to blame their boss,

One among many unsettling aspects of life in the new New Orleans is the abundance of uniformed and heavily armed men, not all of whom are soldiers or police. In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck, the Nation reported on the presence of hundreds of p

Rose Harris was a resident of the Lafitte Housing Projects in the Treme (rhymes nearly with "dismay") neighborhood of New Orleans for 28 years. She lost a brother, a nephew, and a sister-in-law in Hurricane Katrina. The first floor of her home was flooded

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an estimated 70,000 residents and contract workers spending the night