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• Katrina Victims Lose In Appeals Court

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:34 am

  Tags: Judicial Issues, Hurricane Katrina

  Yahoo News (h/t NonnyMouse) Hurricane Katrina victims whose homes and businesses were destroyed when floodwaters breached levees in the 2005 storm cannot recover money from their insurance companies for the damages, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The case could affect thousands of rebuilding residents and business owners in Louisiana.

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• Minneapolis Bridge Victims' Funerals: It's ALL FUN-erals ALL THE TIME To Pastor Fred Phelps

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:04 pm

  Tags: Talk Radio, Hurricane Katrina, Crime, Social Commentary, Virginia Tech, Sectarian Violence, Christians, Death, Human Rights, Homosexuality, Legal Matters, Pornography

  Pastor Fred and his crew of self-styled Baptists who like to show up at funerals of gays, military and disaster victims, carrying signs saying God Hates You, and bellowing over bullhorns about how happy God is to murder human beings. He’s back. Again. They say decent Christians never speak out against others who hold themselves out to be

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• Building Dreams, One Luxury Condo At A Time: You're Doin' A Heckuva Job, 'Bama

  Published: August 14, 2007, 10:40 am

  Tags: Alabama Crimson Tide, Building Dreams One Luxury Condo At Time, College Football, Greed Good, Hurricane Katrina

  Remember those federal tax breaks that were supposed to be for New Orleans Katrina victims to rebuild their homes and businesses? You'll be happy to know that someone, at least, is taking advantage...

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• Building Dreams, One Luxury Condo At A Time: You're Doin' A Heckuva Job, 'Bama

  Published: August 14, 2007, 10:40 am

  Tags: Alabama Crimson Tide, Building Dreams One Luxury Condo At Time, College Football, Greed Good, Hurricane Katrina

  to be for New Orleans Katrina victims to rebuild their homes and businesses? You'll be happy to know that someone, at least, is taking advantage of them. Developers in Tuscaloosa, Ala., are using the Katrina tax shelters to construct $1 million condos for University of Alabama football fans. It seems that the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act

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• Katrina two years later: Checks still in the mail

  Published: August 23, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Hurricane Katrina

  of the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina. But, as the second anniversary of the hurricane that battered and flooded New Orleans and the Gulf Coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi nears next week, a new study suggests that much of the check is still in the mail. The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and the

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• Bush returning to New Orleans, Democrats too

  Published: August 24, 2007, 2:35 pm

  Tags: Hurricane Katrina

  the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. He will return to a city still rebuilding from a hurricane and flooding. The president, who took four days to reach New Orleans after the storm that overwhelmed the Crescent City and the Gulf Coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, will waste no time making his anniversary appointment. Bush plans

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• Brad Pitt Tries To “Make It Right”

  Published: August 27, 2007, 3:26 pm

  Tags: Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie Zahara Pax Thien Make It Right Project Hurricane Katrina Charity Brad Pitt Gossip Brad Pitt Pics Angelina Jolie Gossip Angelina Jolie Photos

  their fame to the victims of Hurricane Katrina at their “Make It Right” benefit. On Saturday, after a day in the park with their kids, Ang and Brad hopped on a helicopter bound for the Hamptons.  Their mission:  Raise money for the Lower Ninth Ward hurricane damage.

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• Bush in New Orleans: 'Quiet heroes' of hope

  Published: August 29, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Hurricane Katrina

  to the youngest victims of Katrina, according to spokeswoman Colleen Wilber. The partners include United Way, City Year New Orleans, Second Harvest, Hands On Network and Communities in Schools. Our work in New Orleans is part of our larger initiative Katrina's Kids,' Wilber says. The Alliance began helping young people impacted by

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• Two Years Ago

  Published: August 29, 2007, 9:45 am

  Tags: Hurricane Katrina, George W Bush, New Orleans, John Mccain

  on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, George Bush will be in New Orleans "remembering the storm" that devastated the Gulf Coast and killed more than 1800 people. And we will all be remembering what Bush was doing on that day two years ago.   And two weeks later, when he spoke in front of the temporarily-lit St. Louis Cathedral,

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• Katrina: Two years later

  Published: August 29, 2007, 8:47 am

  Tags: Media Watch, Weather Watch Response, Hurricane Katrina

  the two year anniversay of Katrina are all over the news this morning already, but before you get started on reading their “before/after” recaps, make sure to check out Tigerhawk’s post in which he asks: Katrina reconstruction: Will government’s failure make people more self-reliant? A snippet: So, my question for your

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• Hurricane Katrina + 2 Years

  Published: August 29, 2007, 10:41 am

  Tags: Political, Hurricane Katrina

  Image courtesy of Suspect Device.

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• A letter from New Orleans

  Published: August 29, 2007, 10:27 am

  Tags: Political, Hurricane Katrina

  wetlands were lost during Hurricane Katrina (Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation) The cumulative impact of these lost wetlands is a New Orleans with no natural protection against storm surges from tropical storms and hurricanes (Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation) 4. ECONOMY AND JOBS Two contracts of the 140 FEMA awarded for travel

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• 7 Lessons Learned 2 Years After Katrina

  Published: August 29, 2007, 11:21 am

  Tags: Personal, Articles, Anniversary, Disaster, Hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, Lake George, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Orleans

  the lives we knew before Katrina were gone. We returned to a different city, an empty town where military humvees patrolled the streets and army helicopters passed with startling regularity. It was a place where MREs were the only reliable food and if you saw another person while walking through the city, you struck up a conversation, and

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• The Katrina Video Congress Didn't Want You To See II

  Published: August 29, 2007, 12:46 pm

  Tags: Hurricane Katrina

  [Originally run 8/28/06, I figured it was worth running this year.] I'm going to warn you now. If you've only heard the news from the mainstream media, everything you think...

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• New Orleans, 2 Years Later

  Published: August 29, 2007, 12:37 pm

  Tags: Hurricane Katrina

  I really am not in much of a mood to write about the Katrina "anniversary ." On one hand, there are so many words being written this week, what can...

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