Word: louisiana
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...billion Amount insurers have paid out in Mississippi and Louisiana...
Sources: National Retail Federation; New York City Mayor's Office; Washington Post; National Comorbidity Study; British Medical Journal (2); Bloomberg; Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger and Louisiana department of insurance
...Orleans Superdome that he snared the G.O.P. nomination in 1988 and spoke of a "kinder, gentler" nation. To Clinton, New Orleans was also promised land: his mother worked at the city's Charity Hospital while he was being raised by his grandparents in Arkansas, and it was to Louisiana and Mississippi that his family took its only out-of-state vacations. In Katrina, two men from different eras, backgrounds and philosophies found common ground--and it was littered with debris...
Bush and Clinton returned to New Orleans together earlier this month, handing out $90 million in reconstruction funds to local colleges and universities; block grants to the Governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama; and at the suggestion of Bush 43, funds to help reopen churches and faith-based institutions. They created a bipartisan board to oversee the Katrina donations and vowed to put out a report later this month explaining how they spent their tsunami funds. (One project: buying new fiber-glass boats for fishermen who lost their vessels in the storm.) There's talk of a Clinton visit...
...with a heavy heart that I say I am against rebuilding New Orleans. Having lived in southern Louisiana for eight years, I love the people, the culture, the traditions, the kookiness, the spirituality. I love it all. But I have come to believe, as cruel as it sounds, that the people of New Orleans and southern Louisiana need to take steps to get out of harm's way and head to higher land. To them I say, Spread your culture and traditions around the rest of Louisiana and the U.S. Please think of your great-grandchildren's well-being. Please...