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Obama to Travel to New Orleans on Katrina Anniversary
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyMarking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Obama will travel to New Orleans on Sunday, the White House has announced. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, as well as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate will participate in events throughout the coming week, drawing attention to recovery and restoration efforts in the region. On Sunday, the president will travel from Martha's Vineyard, where he has been vacationing, to New Orleans. He will ...
New Orleans Clinic Battles to Keep City's Arts Healthy
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(July 19) -- He's performed in New Orleans since college -- everything from AC/DC covers to '70s disco jams. But Paul Pattan, 45, can't believe he's still picking up his guitar and getting behind the mic. Reflecting on the 2004 motorcycle accident that left him with a fused spine and amputated foot, and the trauma of losing his possessions in Hurricane Katrina only a year later, Pattan swears he's lucky to be getting out of bed. Paul Pattan Paul Pattan was able to return to performing afte a motorcycle wreck thanks to care from NOMC. "Some days I'm convinced I could be 80 years old," he ...
Scandal-Ridden New Orleans Police at Crossroads
By Allan Lengel - AOL News(July 16) -- In New Orleans, a town known for its jambalaya, jazz and hospitality, it hasn't been difficult over the years to find folks willing to serve up some harsh words about their often-maligned and scandal-plagued police department. That may change -- even with the latest federal indictments for the shootings after Hurricane Katrina. The Big Easy has a new mayor, Mitch Landrieu. The Justice Department -- at his request -- has stepped in to examine signs of systemic police misconduct. And a new police chief, Ronal Serpas, has been installed. The department is at a crossroads. And the ...
On the Gulf Coast, Fighting a Tide of Oil, Painful Memories and Dread
By Jason Berry - Politics DailyNEW ORLEANS -- The great media machinery has descended on Louisiana's serrated Gulf of Mexico coastline, the wetlands scarred by 10,000 navigational canals cut by the oil companies over many years. All that gouging of saw grass and florabunda yields the disappearance of a marsh plot the size of a football field every hour. Flash back to Aug. 31, 2005: Hurricane Katrina's winds pushed rolling sheets of water into a huge funnel that surged across those soggy flatlands like a sluiceway into the holy city where jazz began, 80 percent of which went under water. Average flood level, four feet. You ...
Is Gulf Oil Disaster Obama's Katrina? (Hint: No Flyovers This Time)
By David Corn - Politics DailyA favorite media narrative of the ongoing Gulf oil spill is the obvious one: Is this President Barack Obama's Hurricane Katrina? The conservative Washington Examiner headlines its timeline of the disaster this way: "Gulf oil spill becoming Obama's Katrina." A New York Times article on Saturday noted, "Shadow of Hurricane Katrina Hangs Over Obama After Spill." The White House is obviously sensitive to any charge of Katrina-ism. Obama went to New Orleans on Sunday to review the spill situation and preparations for contending with the oil once it hits wetlands, fishing estuaries and the coast ...
The Silent Killer Takes Out a Woman Who Would Not Shut Up
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyChristie Buckner was an ordinary woman, so the world took little notice of her death last October. ...
Help for Haiti From an Indiana Hardware Store
By Sherri Coner Eastburn - AOL NewsINDIANAPOLIS (Jan. 28) – Haiti's plight has spawned high-profile telethons, celebrity sporting events and international conferences. But the Jan. 12 earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince is also getting righteous attention in an ordinary Indianapolis hardware store, where owner Jeff Cardwell was on the air today as every Thursday from his makeshift radio studio in the store's back aisle, organizing volunteers to aid the survivors. Cardwell's syndicated radio broadcast, "People Helping People," has been on the air since 2005 on behalf of victims of natural disasters. Cardwell is out to ...
Did Katrina Spur Fast Pace of Haiti Donations?
By Tamara Lytle - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 19) -- Americans are looking past their own recession-racked circumstances at heartbreaking images of Haiti and sending hundreds of millions of dollars in donations at a pace close to that of the largest disasters in recent history. About $231 million had been donated for earthquake victims by today, according to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. The figure had been about $190 million by Sunday, compared with $207 million for the first five days after the Asian tsunamis in 2004 or the $226 million in the first five days of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, ...
Quake Stirs Painful Memories in US
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Jan. 19) – A week later, the damage from the massive earthquake that struck Haiti remains unimaginable for many. But for some who live in New York and New Orleans, the destruction is reminiscent of catastrophes in those cities. In Port-au-Prince, a New York City rescue team has been sifting through the wreckage for survivors, much as some of them did at ground zero after the 9/11 attacks. One firefighter on the squad said the smell of death in the air reminded him of New York, The New York Times reports. "And I can smell it right now. Sniff in the air. That's it. Once it's in your ...
Little Boy Asks Barack Obama, 'Why Do People Hate You?'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyPresident Obama went to New Orleans for the first time as president Thursday to visit a charter school and to hold a town hall meeting. While there, he told the people of the city that he is committed to helping them continue to rebuild, more than four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region. Obama observed that the destruction on the Gulf Coast was caused not just by a natural disaster, but also by the failure of government at every level to prepare for it. "We will not forget about New Orleans, and we are not going to forget about the Gulf Coast," he promised. "Together we will ...
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