President Obama will travel to New Orleans on Aug. 29 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, spokesman Robert Gibbs said today.
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It will be five years since Katrina on August 29. The impact of Katrina is quite painful for regular people in the area. This article looks at what has happened since Katrina not from the perspective of the higher ups looking down from their offices but from the street level view of the people a view which looks at the impact on the elderly, the renter, people of color, the disabled, the working and non-working poor…
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The grassroots group Levees.org is nominating two places where levees broke after Hurricane Katrina to the National Register of Historic Places, and says it plans to nominate at least four more.
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A federal grand jury has indicted four New Orleans police officers and two former officers accused of civil rights violations and covering up the investigation of the fatal shootings of unarmed civilians on a bridge in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina…
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Habitat has begun investigating as many as 50 post-Katrina homes that used the allegedly American-made product. Most of the targeted homes are in Musicians’ Village, which was largely bankrolled by Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis in an attempt to bring musicians back to the city after the hurricane. But some are in other New Orleans neighborhoods.
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Hurricane Katrina’s deluge was Biblical. When it hit Louisiana and Mississippi the morning of August 29, 2005, the storm caused fearsome destruction. Then the disaster grew worse. The levees ? the man-made walls built to protect New Orleans from the water surrounding it ? failed. Their collapse flooded 80 percent of the city. By the time the waters receded and the survivors regrouped, Katrina, and then Hurricane Rita, had claimed more than 1,400 lives and the dreams of hundreds of thousands.
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Chile’s new president is looking to New Orleans and its recovery after Hurricane Katrina for lessons to help him lead the South American nation’s own comeback from a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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Jurors heard testimony Tuesday by Associated Press Television News producer Rich Matthews, whose crew was filming an arrest in the city’s French Quarter several weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005…
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A federal arbitration panel awarded Louisiana $475 million Wednesday for hurricane-related damage to Charity HospitalThe $475 million brings the state more than halfway to the financing it needs for building a new hospital on a lower Mid-City tract bordered by South Claiborne Avenue, Canal Street, Galvez Street and Tulane Avenue.
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This week on our program … VOA visits New Orleans, Louisiana, to learn about the recovery efforts since Hurricane Katrina …
…and plays music from several of the city’s many jazz bands.
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