Yahoo! News: Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
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Ex-Bush aides say he never recovered from Katrina (AP)
AP - Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster.
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Ex-aides say Bush never recovered from Katrina (AP)
AP - Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster.
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Judge rejects class-action status in trailer suits (AP)
AP - A judge has refused to grant class-action status to the lawsuits of hundreds of Gulf Coast hurricane victims who claim they were exposed to potentially toxic formaldehyde fumes while living in emergency trailers.
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Guard to continue patrolling New Orleans (AP)
AP - About 100 National Guard troops will continue patrolling New Orleans, where they have been a constant presence since a rash of violence broke out in June 2006 in the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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Clinton discloses Katrina donors (AP)
AP - A new list released by former President Bill Clinton is providing a look at major donors to the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort.
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Katrina recovery: new push to help small landlords (AP)
AP - An $849 million Hurricane Katrina recovery program hobbled by red tape and the national credit crunch will seek to issue rebuilding money directly to small landlords without the involvement of banks, officials said Wednesday.
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Changes announced for Katrina rebuilding program (AP)
AP - An $849 million Hurricane Katrina recovery program, hobbled by red tape and the national credit crunch, will seek to issue rebuilding money directly to small landlords without the involvement of banks, officials said Wednesday.
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Miss. residents sue over Katrina housing funds (AP)
AP - Housing advocates and low-income residents sued Wednesday to stop Mississippi from spending a half-billion federal dollars to expand a damaged port rather than replace homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
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Ambulance Company Thrives On 911 Contracts And Natural Disasters (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Hurricanes Ike and Gustav wreaked havoc on the Caribbean and U.S. Gulf Coast states in September.
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1st Vietnamese-American elected to US Congress (AP)
AP - The first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress took advantage of dissatisfaction with a longtime incumbent dogged by corruption allegations and reflects the changing nature of New Orleans politics since Hurricane Katrina.
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Rockefeller Center lights tree in annual ceremony (AP)
AP - A family of Hurricane Katrina survivors whose new house was partly built with lumber from last year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree were among thousands who attended this year's lighting ceremony Wednesday.
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Families move into homes that Pitt built (AP)
AP - It was a bittersweet moment for Brad Pitt, walking through the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood where families were preparing to spend their first holidays since Hurricane Katrina.
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Storm planners reflect on busy hurricane season (AP)
AP - In New Orleans, a dire warning to flee emptied the city before Hurricane Gustav in early September. In Houston less than two weeks later, a plea to "hunker down" might have kept evacuation routes from clogging before Hurricane Ike struck.
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Study: Many kids in Katrina trailer park anemic (AP)
AP - Dozens of infants and toddlers who lived in Louisiana's biggest trailer park for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina were anemic because of poor diets, at a rate that health experts said was four times the national average.
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Rents up in New Orleans while $846m sits unclaimed (AP)
AP - The four-unit shotgun house that Sandra Marshall bought after decades of double shifts has sat untouched since the flooding of Hurricane Katrina, while nearly $850 million in federal aid for her and thousands of other mom-and-pop landlords sits on a bureaucratic shelf.
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Clarification: Road Home story (AP)
AP - In a Nov. 12 story, The Associated Press reported that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund was among the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit claiming racial discrimination by the Louisiana Road Home program, which provides rebuilding grants to Gulf Coast hurricane victims. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is …
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Fats Domino documentary to air on PBS (AP)
AP - NEW ORLEANS ? Fats Domino lost his sprawling yellow-and-white house in Hurricane Katrina and with it, the keepsakes of an extraordinary career that took him from New Orleans honky-tonks to worldwide hitmaker.
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Etc. (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - There's plenty of super food down yonder in New OrleansNew Orleans may still be in recovery mode from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but its reputation as a food lover's paradise is undiminished. The iExplore travel website has recognized the Big Easy as the world's be …
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Man gets prison over FEMA trailer refurbish scheme (AP)
AP - A man who advertised a bogus investment plan to buy and refurbish FEMA trailers used after hurricanes Katrina and Rita is going to prison.
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Lawsuit claims discrimination in Katrina recovery (AP)
AP - A coalition of civil rights attorneys have filed a federal lawsuit claiming racial discrimination by a $10.3 billion Hurricane Katrina recovery program that was designed to help victims rebuild their storm-damaged homes.
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