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...restoration of barrier islands, marshes and swamplands. But the money never came. In fact, the White House's Office of Management and Budget squeezed the request from $14 billion to $1.9 billion in the 2005 Water Resources Development Act, which is still awaiting a Senate vote. Governor Kathleen Blanco, in her first State of the State address after Katrina, tried to hitch the plan to the swell of reconstruction aid, asking for a cut of federal oil revenues to pay for coastal restoration, an idea also proposed by Louisiana's two Senators, one a Republican and the other a Democrat...
...Democrat and won in a landslide. "I'm confident I appeal to just about every segment of the population here, and that's never happened in this city," says Nagin, who is black. He raised eyebrows again in 2003 when he backed a Republican against Democrat Kathleen Blanco in the governor's race. (Blanco won.) Still, he's won high marks for his anti-corruption campaign-which has netted scores of arrests-and his drive to improve the city's abysmal public schools and free business from smothering taxes and red tape. After taking office with only two days' cash...
...volunteers stayed at the capital city’s Sheraton, while others in the Harvard Foundation-led group slept at the home of Louisiana Governor Kathleen B. Blanco and the Louisiana State University’s faculty club...
...Putting Blame Where it Belongs” (Sep. 12), Mark A Adomanis asks the question, “Why did Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco not declare a state of emergency immediately after the hurricane hit, instead becoming embroiled in an administrative turf war with the federal government?” In truth, Gov. Blanco declared a state of emergency well before the hurricane’s landfall...
...vessel. More ominously, in the wake of the horrifying discovery of 34 bodies at a Louisiana nursing home and an additional 45 at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center, a very public dispute about the slow pace of gathering bodies in New Orleans erupted between FEMA and Kathleen Blanco, the Governor of Louisiana. Claiming that it needed better coordination with local authorities to get the job done, Houston-based Kenyon International Emergency Services canceled its temporary contract with FEMA and signed on with the state instead. By the end of the week, the official death toll from Katrina had risen above...