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...received virtually no additional protection. That's why officials in Louisiana's southern parishes have been pushing for a series of gigantic levees, starting with a 72-mile project known as Morganza-to-the-Gulf. Morganza (the name of a small inland community) would protect the city of Houma as well as a series of tiny bayou towns, but it would also cut off 135,000 acres of wetlands from their natural tidal exchanges. Scientists have said the project would make the area even less safe by ravaging natural storm buffers, amplifying storm surges and encouraging a false sense...
Immediately after the Imus flap, you spoke out against hip-hop censorship. Now, you want rappers and media outlets to stop using these terms over the airways. Doesn't this make you a hypocrite? -Keyon Jeff, Houma, La.No. I think it is some self-analysis. The outrage [over the Imus situation] made me think about it. I am allowed to have a different opinion...
Americans have a long history of meddling with the Mississippi and its delta. Clifford Smith, a civil engineer from the delta city of Houma, La., paints it as a story of progress. "What we have done is allow the Mississippi valley to become the most productive in the world," he says. "One of the major reasons that we are the most powerful country in the world is because of what we've done to control flooding and navigation on the Mississippi...
BILLY TAUZIN (R) District 3 (South Central--Houma...
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