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Bills aim to snag offshore revenue
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Hoping the devastation from Hurricane Katrina will persuade Congress and the Bush administration to provide a regular financing mechanism for levee upgrades and coastal restoration, Sen. Mary Landrieu on Wednesday introduced her latest version of legislation to designate a portion of federal offshore oil and gas exploration revenue for energy-producing states.
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Hurricane recovery package gets boost
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Efforts to push through a $19.1 billion package of hurricane recovery assistance got a lift Wednesday when the House rejected an effort by some conservative Republicans to require that the disaster spending be offset by budget cuts.
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Congress moves to strengthen port security
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The recent uproar over a Middle Eastern company's plans to take over operation of six U.S. ports, including New Orleans, has revived discussion about the vulnerability of domestic seaports and generated bipartisan support for more rigorous inspections of foreign cargo before it hits U.S. docks.
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Expert: Blanco faces 'uphill battle' in '07
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Ed Anderson - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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More than a year and a half away from the campaign, Gov. Kathleen Blanco looks like an underdog for re-election, a noted political scientist told the Press Club of Baton Rouge on Monday.
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Bush: Give Louisiana the entire $4.2 billion
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Michelle Krupa - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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President Bush toured New Orleans' most flood-ravaged neighborhood for the first time Wednesday morning, strolling down a street of rotting homes and using the visit to call on Congress to honor his proposal to earmark an additional $4.2 billion for Louisiana housing recovery.
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Gulf drilling plan clears panel
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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A controversial plan to open nearly 3 million acres to drilling in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico cleared an important hurdle Wednesday despite objections from senators from Louisiana and Florida.
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Senator wants answers on 2,000 missing in Katrina
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Calling it "totally unacceptable" that nearly 2,000 people remain unaccounted for more than six months after Hurricane Katrina, a Michigan senator Wednesday called on federal investigators to determine whether overly rigid governmental policies have made it harder for people to find missing family and friends.
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Panel defies Bush, loosens La.'s grip on storm grants
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Leaders of the House Appropriations Committee have stripped President Bush's request to earmark $4.2 billion for housing recovery in Louisiana, throwing the state's rebuilding plan into question and unleashing a scramble among hurricane-damaged Gulf Coast states for a cut of the money.
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Tauzin denies drug bill was path to lobbyist job
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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As the Senate prepares to debate tough new ethics laws, former Louisiana Rep. Billy Tauzin fired off a letter Monday to all 535 members of Congress to correct what he says are "false and inaccurate claims" about how he landed his job as the drug industry's top lobbyist.
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Displaced student money flowing
Friday, March 3, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Schools that took in students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are getting the first of four installments in promised federal aid, but a shortfall in financing means the allotment will be less than the $6,000 per student authorized by Congress, the U.S. Department of Education said Thursday.
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Proposal would tighten ethics overhaul
Friday, March 3, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Saying that Congress must win back the confidence of voters, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said Thursday that he will propose even tighter restrictions to ethics overhaul legislation nearing a vote in the U.S. Senate.
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Lawmakers bask in Fat Tuesday limelight
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Louisiana lawmakers used the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall and Mardi Gras -- and the additional enticement of king cake -- to remind colleagues and the news media Tuesday of the unfinished recovery in south Louisiana.
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The day storm hit, Bush was worried about levees
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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On the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, President Bush and a top presidential aide were worried about whether New Orleans' levees had held, according to a transcript of discussions among disaster officials on the front lines of the storm.
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Bill puts brakes on party switching
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Ed Anderson - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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A political candidate who qualifies under one party's banner would not be able to switch parties and requalify for the same office if a bill filed by a north Louisiana lawmaker becomes law.
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FEMA chief's calls for help went unheeded
Monday, February 27, 2006
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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More than anyone else, former FEMA Director Michael Brown became the cartoonish face of bureaucratic incompetence after Hurricane Katrina.
The image seemed only fitting when congressional investigators released Brown's e-mail messages at the height of the disaster reflecting on his wardrobe during television appearances.
But a somewhat more sympathetic picture of Brown is emerging. As scrutiny has intensified on his former boss, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Brown is being seen more as an unqualified but well-intentioned bureaucrat warning in vain in advance of the storm that his agency was unprepared.
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Senators' cupboards far from bare
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Katrina put a crimp on fourth-quarter political fund raising, but Louisiana's two senators still finished 2005 with healthy campaign bank accounts.
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More oil, gas dollars sought for state
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Paul Bartels - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Louisiana shouldn't be expected to bear a disproportionate share of hurricane recovery costs when the state's oil and gas help keep lights on and homes warm elsewhere in the nation, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said Wednesday.
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Don't forget us, Slidell asks Jindal
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Christine Harvey - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal said he wants to make sure Slidell isn't forgotten as Congress prepares to consider the next supplemental budget with regard to Hurricane Katrina, worrying that the bureaucracy within federal government is hindering the city's ability to rebuild.
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House bigwigs coming to N.O.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will lead a bipartisan congressional delegation of 100 members next month to tour the devastation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Louisiana Reps. William Jefferson and Charlie Melancon said Friday.
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Demos miss out on Katrina probe
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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As a select House committee wrapped up its investigation of the Hurricane Katrina response, Democrats paid a price for not appointing anyone to the panel -- a step they took because Republicans insisted on holding the majority.
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Bush to seek $4.2 billion more for La.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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In what is being hailed as a major step toward Louisiana's recovery from Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration announced Wednesday that it will ask Congress for another $4.2 billion to repair, rebuild or buy flood-damaged homes in the state.
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Chertoff: Katrina response a failure
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff acknowledged "many lapses" in the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina during a contentious Senate hearing Wednesday in which lawmakers slammed him for failing to properly direct disaster-response teams that "ran around like Keystone Kops."
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Senators to confront former FEMA chief today
Friday, February 10, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown likely will be asked by a Senate panel today why it took so long to bring buses to the Superdome and Convention Center to evacuate Hurricane Katrina evacuees living without toilet facilities, air conditioning and, in many cases, food and water.
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Bankers question feds' commitment to Gulf Coast
Thursday, February 9, 2006
Jan Moller - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Gulf Coast reconstruction czar Donald Powell got a lukewarm reception on Wednesday from a group of Louisiana bankers who challenged the former bank regulator on the speed of recovery and the true amount of federal dollars being devoted to the effort.
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'It's time to play hardball'
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Ed Anderson and Robert Travis Scott - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco kicked off a history-making special session of the Legislature on Monday evening at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center with a forceful message to the federal government and state lawmakers to support her levee board and housing programs for hurricane recovery.
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La. leaders, White House clash
Friday, February 3, 2006
Bruce Alpert and Laura Maggi - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The debate over how to rebuild homes and communities destroyed by Hurricane Katrina erupted into public warfare between Louisiana and the White House on Thursday as the Bush administration sharply denounced the state's preferred solution and the author of the Louisiana plan accused the administration of misleading the public in an effort to kill the proposal.
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Vitter rejects White House claims
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., says he doesn't buy Bush administration arguments of executive privilege in barring some federal officials from telling a Senate committee about their contacts with the White House regarding Hurricane Katrina.
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Buyouts torpedoed, not sunk
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Frank Donze, Gordon Russell, and Laura Maggi - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The White House's public opposition this week to legislation that would have offered quick buyouts to owners of heavily damaged properties in Louisiana throws a wrench into the plans of local communities, in particular New Orleans, that were counting on the buyout program to serve as a mechanism for quick redevelopment in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
But while most state and local leaders saw the Bush administration's decision as a serious setback, they didn't view it as fatal. In the short term, they acknowledged, the absence of the "Baker bill" legislation will make it difficult for homeowners already stuck in limbo for the past five months to make informed decisions in the near future about whether to rebuild or sell their flooded properties.
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Blanco seeking to put off election
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Ed Anderson - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday that she will ask lawmakers at the February special session to postpone an April 29 statewide election on two proposed constitutional amendments until the state is better equipped to handle it.
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State not ready to pay FEMA bill
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Jan Moller - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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A week before Louisiana's $156 million bill from the federal government comes due, state officials said Monday that they have no intention of paying until they get more documentation.
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Huge Gulf oil spill blamed on Rita
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Ben Raines - - New Orleans Times-Picayune (Newhouse News Service)
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MOBILE, ALA. -- A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has escaped widespread notice provides graphic evidence that damage done by last year's hurricanes poses an ongoing problem for the Gulf's oil industry and coastal environment.
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Louisiana feeling shortchanged
Friday, January 20, 2006
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Four and a half months after Hurricane Katrina blew through Louisiana, a bit of Mississippi envy is in the air.
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Nagin backpedals, apologizes
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
James Varney - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Faced with howls of protest, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin apologized Tuesday for claiming that a vengeful God smote New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina because of heavenly disapproval of America's involvement in Iraq and of rampant violence within urban black communities.
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Senators say recovery moving at snail's pace
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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A group of U.S. senators touring hurricane-ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi on Tuesday expressed outrage and dismay that the region hasn't experienced more progress in the 4 ½ months since Hurricane Katrina roared ashore.
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Recovery money for La. colleges on agenda
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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How the federal government can help local colleges recover from Hurricane Katrina will be on the agenda today as Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and Donald Powell, the Bush administration's Gulf Coast rebuilding coordinator, meet with higher education leaders and students from New Orleans area colleges.
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As the recovery steps up, is the New Orleans area moving backward or forward?
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Coleman Warner - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Urban historian Arnold Hirsch has studied New Orleans' cultural evolution, the intricate layers of its past. But he can't fathom what the city's future holds.
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Jindal: Shorten leash on lobbyists
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Overhauling the rules for Capitol Hill lobbyists has become all the rage in Washington as the Jack Abramoff scandal shines an uncomfortable light on the sometimes cozy relationships between members of Congress and the lobbying industry.
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Locals have a lot to say about Alito
Monday, January 9, 2006
Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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As the Senate Judiciary Committee opens hearings Monday on President Bush's Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, two Louisiana-linked political advocates are expected to get a lot of air time on cable news shows.
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Louisiana has little time left in Congress
Saturday, January 7, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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A plan for buying up homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, money for new pump stations on the lakefront and another attempt to get the state a share of federal offshore oil royalties are on the list of unfinished business Louisiana lawmakers hope to address quickly when Congress returns to work this month.
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IRS has storm victim hot line
Thursday, January 5, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Noting the special problems faced by hurricane victims, the Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday announced creation of a toll-free number to provide information such as help in getting wage statements from employers and retrieving copies of prior year tax returns.
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No shots fired at messenger
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The FEMA official who captivated a Senate committee in October with his dramatic account of how his increasingly desperate pleas from New Orleans for medical help, food and water went largely ignored in the days after Hurricane Katrina reports there "have been zero ramifications" from his bosses.
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Bush signs bill providing levee aid
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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President Bush signed into law Friday a massive spending bill that finances the military and provides $29 billion in hurricane recovery relief for the Gulf Coast, including $2.9 billion for levee repairs and upgrades in New Orleans.
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Senator says relief effort deserves federal support
Monday, December 19, 2005
Gordon Russell - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that the federal government needs to be "a better partner" in helping southeastern Louisiana recover from the blow dealt by Hurricane Katrina by, among other things, building state-of-the-art levees, providing temporary housing and giving residents other forms of assistance to get back on their feet.
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Baker buyout bill heads to Congress now
Friday, December 16, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Thousands of Louisiana residents who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina could recover at least 60 percent of their equity investment by selling to a government-created corporation, if legislation approved Thursday by a House committee gets final approval from Congress.
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Katrina panel subpoenas Rumsfeld
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Citing a lack of cooperation from the Pentagon, the House committee investigating the government's response to Hurricane Katrina subpoenaed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday for documents the panel first requested in September.
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Demo wants Bush team subpoenas
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The House committee investigating the government's response to Hurricane Katrina is expected to come in for some scrutiny itself today as a Louisiana Democrat plans to demand that subpoenas be issued to the White House to find out what top officials were doing -- and not doing -- as New Orleans plunged into chaos.
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Last-minute holiday lobbying
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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With time running short on the 2005 congressional calendar, Louisiana officials have ramped up their lobbying efforts for more hurricane assistance before lawmakers go home for the holidays.
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Congress weighs size of recovery purse
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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How much post-Katrina help Louisiana gets, including money to rebuild and strengthen failed levees, could be determined during high-stakes negotiations in Congress during the next week.
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E-mail suggests Blanco asleep at switch
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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A single sentence in the mountain of e-mails released last week by Gov. Kathleen Blanco sparked media interest Wednesday in the Louisiana governor's sleeping habits just before Hurricane Katrina hit.
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State couldn't keep up with aid offers
Sunday, December 4, 2005
Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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In the days after Hurricane Katrina hit, Louisiana officials were overwhelmed with offers of help -- everything from buses, helicopters and boats to the temporary use of a Hamptons summer home donated by its New York owner with the caveat it go only to a fellow lawyer displaced by the hurricane.
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Old job doesn't appeal to John
Sunday, December 4, 2005
Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Former Rep. Chris John, a Crowley Democrat, has decided not to take a stab at winning his old seat back. He has told officials from the Democratic congressional campaign committee that they'll have to find another challenger for freshman Rep. Charles Boustany, R-Lafayette, in next year's midterm elections.
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Plan would pay for ruined houses
Friday, December 2, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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WASHINGTON -- First Hurricane Katrina took Cathy Perrot's home. Now she faces another disaster: Paying for it.
Perrot's St. Bernard Parish house was plunged under water when the levees broke Aug. 29. The property is a total loss, she said, but one remnant survived intact: The $90,000 mortgage.
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DNC to hold meeting in N.O.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The Democratic National Committee will hold its spring 2006 meeting in New Orleans, providing an economic boost of 400 visitors as the city continues its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, officials said Monday.
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Build Category 5 levees, senator says
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Five days after meeting with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the Senate's Democratic leader said Monday the party is committed to "rebuilding New Orleans and all of south Louisiana with stronger levee systems to protect against Category 5 hurricanes."
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Feds still pick up tab for debris
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Louisiana can put off worries about paying the mounting cost of removing hurricane-related debris until 2006. President Bush on Saturday authorized the federal government to pay 100 percent of the bill through Jan. 15 for debris removal and for overtime for local emergency workers.
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New storm mandate has an old ring to it
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Congress told the Army Corps of Engineers this month to figure out how best to protect south Louisiana from hurricanes more powerful than Katrina and Rita and report back in May.
It was legislative deja vu. A similar request was made six years ago. But a time-consuming set of bureaucratic hurdles, shifting congressional priorities and inconsistent financing from Washington slowed progress on a hurricane protection study to a drip, drip, drip pace.
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Texas hospitality only goes so far
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, said most Texans were pleased to take in Louisiana residents made homeless by Hurricane Katrina. But not all of them.
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La. asks '60 Minutes' to hold report
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Robert Travis Scott - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco's hurricane recovery chief has asked the CBS "60 Minutes" television show to hold its scheduled broadcast today of the program centered on a scientist's allegation that New Orleans is sinking and that residents should be induced to leave the city.
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Outer ring of flood protection proposed
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Keith Darcé - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The federal government should consider building an outer layer of flood protection structures beyond the traditional levees around the New Orleans area, but high construction costs could block that from becoming a reality, said U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, a member of a levee oversight committee who toured hurricane-devastated parts of the city Monday.
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Displaced demanding 'right of return'
Monday, November 14, 2005
Jonathan Tilove - - New Orleans Times-Picayune (Newhouse News Service)
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The "right of return" is the battle cry of the Katrina diaspora.
Direct and compelling, it cuts to the heart of the matter and rings of fundamental fairness: In the aftermath of a natural disaster, those displaced ought to be able to return to their rebuilt communities, ought to be a part of the rebuilding.
But does a right of return exist in any legally enforceable or politically meaningful way?
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N.O. ready to party like it's 2008
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin thinks his city will be "operationally" ready to host the 2008 Democratic National Convention if it is chosen as the site, spokeswoman Sally Forman said. But Nagin is letting the party know that New Orleans might have a problem raising the tens of millions of dollars in cash that host cities generally are expected to provide.
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Lawmakers urge citizens to push for protection
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Martha Carr - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Saying he feels like the tree in the forest that nobody heard fall, U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon told the Louisiana Recovery and Rebuilding Conference that it's time for residents to take their case to the steps of the U.S. Capitol and demand immediate action from President Bush and Congress.
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Report gives nod to plan for coast
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Mark Schleifstein - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The proposed 10-year, $1.9 billion federal-state coastal restoration plan should be approved even though it alone is not adequate to reduce Louisiana's chronic loss of wetlands and coastline, according to a report released Wednesday by a national science and engineering research group.
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Category 5 protection support dries up
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Bill Walsh and Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the tattered Gulf Coast received an outpouring of sympathy -- and money -- from Washington. Congress appropriated $62 billion for relief and recovery, and President Bush vowed to rebuild New Orleans "higher and better."
But 2 ½ months after the storm, such unequivocal support is hard to come by in the nation's capital.
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Some Demos touting N.O. for 2008
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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A Maryland congressman is urging his fellow Democrats to hold the party's 2008 presidential nominating convention in New Orleans as a signal of national support for the city after its devastating losses from Hurricane Katrina.
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Senators stunned by scope of damage
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Frank Donze - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The breadth of the financial aid package needed to resurrect southeast Louisiana's crippled economy was laid out in exhaustive detail Monday for U.S. Sen. David Vitter and two of his Republican colleagues who visited the region for a first-hand look at the devastation left by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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Recovery chief calls teamwork essential
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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As the new federal coordinator of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, Donald Powell says his marching orders are to help state and local officials develop their vision of what needs to be done and then offer President Bush and Congress his views on what elements of the plan should go forward and what parts need adjustments.
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Lawmakers agree on enhanced levees
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Congressional negotiators agreed Monday to spend $8 million for "analysis and design" of an enhanced Louisiana hurricane protection system capable of withstanding the strongest storms.
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All eyes turn to Blanco
Sunday, November 6, 2005
Laura Maggi - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco has taken a lot of heat since Hurricane Katrina devastated southeast Louisiana in August, leaving her with arguably the biggest challenge that any modern-day Louisiana governor has ever faced.
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Nagin presses Washington to get behind levee upgrade
Thursday, November 3, 2005
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin urged members of Congress and President Bush's new recovery czar Wednesday to make a firm commitment to building a "world-class" levee system to protect the city against hurricanes.
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Katrina's death toll is anybody's guess
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Robert Travis Scott - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Hurricane Katrina stopped killing people Oct. 1.
That's the date state health officials have assigned as the cutoff for an official Katrina-related death for people who evacuated the New Orleans area because of the Aug. 29 hurricane and died in another city.
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Landrieu knocks court nominee
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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U.S. District Judge Samuel Alito's career "raises questions" about whether he would put legal principles ahead of partisan ideology as a Supreme Court justice, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said Monday.
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Funding requested for federal city plan
Monday, October 31, 2005
Paul Purpura - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Suggesting that Louisiana's financial commitment to the federal city plan could be shaky, U.S. Sens. Mary Landrieu and David Vitter have included $160 million for the project in a Hurricane Katrina recovery bill even though the key selling point has been that the military campus would be built at no cost to the federal government.
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FEMA's money trail 'transparent as mud'
Monday, October 31, 2005
Sean Reilly - - New Orleans Times-Picayune (Newhouse News Service)
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Eric Tolbert spent almost three decades on emergency response teams, starting as a paramedic in his native North Carolina and rising to a top job at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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$17 billion aid shift proposed by Bush
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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President Bush asked Congress on Friday to set aside $17 billion of already-approved hurricane recovery money to fix damaged highways and levees, rebuild federal facilities and provide affordable housing and child care for displaced residents from the Gulf Coast.
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First place Americans turn is to their government
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
DELIA M. RIOS - - New Orleans Times-Picayune (Newhouse News Service)
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"HELP US W"
You don't need to read between the lines of this plea to President Bush, painted in white block letters onto a street in Metairie near the 17th Street canal.
Some anonymous everyman or woman was asserting an American right: calling upon not only the government's resources, but its compassion. Congress already has paid the first installment on that claim, $62 billion in aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
It's the American way.
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Bush revives wage law
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The Bush administration agreed Wednesday to reinstate requiring companies with federal contracts for Hurricane Katrina recovery work to pay employees the prevailing wages in their local communities, usually close to union pay scales.
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Katrina blows away 224,000 local jobs
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Ronette King - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The unemployment rate in the New Orleans area reached a staggering 14.8 percent in September, a modern record, as the metropolitan area lost 38 percent of its jobs in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore, according to figures released Tuesday by the state Labor Department.
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Vitter meets with Miers in private
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Sen. David Vitter, R-La., used part of his private meeting Wednesday with Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to ask her about a 1993 speech in which she said "self-determination" should guide government decisions about abortion and school prayer.
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Breaux to lead the charge for La.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Laura Maggi - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Former U.S. Sen. John Breaux will lead the state's lobbying efforts to get Congress and the Bush administration to pay for the state's rebuilding after two devastating hurricanes, Gov. Kathleen Blanco announced Monday.
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Katrina rewrites N.O. politics
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Gordon Russell - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Two months ago, it looked as though New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin would walk into a second term with only token opposition.
Then Hurricane Katrina roared into town, trashing much of the city's building stock and irrevocably altering its political landscape in the process.
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Feds picking up whole tab for debris cleanup
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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With a critical deadline looming, Louisiana won a partial financial reprieve Saturday from the White House to help with the mounting costs associated with the cleanup from Hurricane Katrina.
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Chertoff absolves local officials
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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As floodwaters rose in New Orleans the day after Hurricane Katrina, the Washington official in charge of disaster relief tried in vain to reach his "battlefield commander" to get an assessment of what was happening.
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Nagin, Blanco asked to detail response
Monday, October 17, 2005
Bruce Alpert - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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A Senate investigatory committee has asked Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin for a detailed accounting of their response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Pile of mud may be clue to levee failure
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
John McQuaid - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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A child's clubhouse, built about 25 years ago by a civil engineer for his son, provides another clue pointing to possible design or construction flaws in the structural failures that breached two canal floodwalls and inundated the city during Hurricane Katrina.
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Up to 3,000 city workers may lose jobs
Sunday, October 2, 2005
Frank Donze - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Crippled financially by the stoppage of virtually all tax revenue, Mayor Ray Nagin's administration has set in motion an unprecedented layoff process that could eliminate as many as 3,000 "non-essential" municipal employees - about 40 percent of the City Hall work force - as early as mid-October.
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Nagin forced Compass out
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Trymaine D. Lee and Walt Philbin - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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After announcing his retirement Tuesday, New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass told several high-ranking officers that he had been forced out by Mayor Ray Nagin, the officers said Wednesday.
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NOPD says 249 officers were AWOL after Katrina
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Michael Perlstein and Frank Donze - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The New Orleans Police Department has identified 249 officers who left their posts without permission during Hurricane Katrina and the storm's chaotic aftermath, and is now trying to distinguish out-and-out deserters from those who had compelling reasons to be AWOL.
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City moves past setback from Rita
Monday, September 26, 2005
Coleman Warner and Doug MacCash - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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New Orleans struggled to regain its footing in the wake of Hurricane Rita on Sunday as Corps of Engineers workers repaired a breach in an Industrial Canal levee, street flooding receded in neighborhoods near the lakefront, and Entergy workers restored power to the French Quarter.
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Rita waters Texas, cuts power with 120 mph winds
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Jan Moller and Steve Ritea - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Hurricane Rita slammed ashore early Saturday along the Texas-Louisiana border, dumping several feet of water into the southwest corner of the state and driving some residents to their rooftops to await rescue, although officials said widespread evacuations undoubtedly saved many lives.
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Predictions of bigger, better New Orleans may be only half right
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Robert Travis Scott - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Mayor Ray Nagin said Wednesday he foresees the New Orleans of the near future as a city of about 250,000 people, about half its population before Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in late August.
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It's déjà vu for evacuees in Houston
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Tara Young - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Preparing for the worst, state and local officials Tuesday ordered the mandatory evacuation of about 4,000 evacuees from Houston-area shelters, offering them a chance to relocate to Arkansas as Hurricane Rita swirled toward the Texas coast.
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La. officials probe pilfered donations
Monday, September 19, 2005
AP's MICHAEL RUBINKAM - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Officials are responding to complaints that city workers helped themselves to cases of Gatorade, brand-new clothing and other donated items that were intended for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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City opens for business owners
Monday, September 19, 2005
Keith Darcé - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Business owners began assessing Hurricane Katrina's damage Saturday, the first day they were allowed to enter New Orleans. Their work marked the start of the long process of resurrecting the city's battered economy.
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Flood waters still propose Health threat, EPA says
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Mark Schleifstein - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Floodwaters remaining in the New Orleans area continue to pose a significant health threat, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen Johnson said Wednesday. The agency has found extremely high amounts of e. coli and fecal coliform, both of which indicate the presence of human and animal feces that could contain dangerous bacteria or viruses.
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Superdome laid waste by those it sheltered
Monday, September 12, 2005
Jeff Duncan - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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The concrete and steel titan on Poydras Street still dominates the New Orleans skyline. But the Superdome, like everything else in the brutalized city, looks much different now.
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Nagin: Mistakes were made at all levels
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Gordon Russell - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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In a stark reminder of how drastically Hurricane Katrina has affected the lives of New Orleanians, Mayor Ray Nagin has purchased a home in Dallas and enrolled his young daughter in school there.
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Few souls remain in shell of a city
Friday, September 9, 2005
Bruce Nolan - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Troops continued to go door to door Thursday in New Orleans, urging the last of the stubborn, the skeptical and the eccentric to get out of a crippled, once magnificent city formerly filled with their kind.
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Bush, Blanco spar over military, visit
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Bill Walsh, Robert Travis Scott, and Jan Moller - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Even as teams of engineers worked to patch ruptured levees in New Orleans, a political breach opened between Gov. Kathleen Blanco and President Bush over who is in charge of the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery effort.
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Blanco: Better days coming
Monday, September 5, 2005
Gwen Filosa and Ed Anderson - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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