Word: louisiana
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CHARGED. SALVADORE MANGANO, 65, and his wife MABLE MANGANO, 62, owners of a Louisiana nursing home where 34 residents were found dead after Hurricane Katrina; with negligent homicide; in New Orleans. Prosecutors say they ignored hurricane warnings and turned down an offer from authorities to evacuate their patients; a lawyer for the couple says they were worried about moving the frail elderly. Each of the 34 counts carries up to five years in prison...
...code. In accounting terms, Hurricane Charley was known as 1539 and 1543. Ivan had nine codes, starting with 1548, one for each state affected by the emergency. Hurricane Katrina is such a vast and expensive undertaking that it has been assigned 45 separate codes: 1602 for Florida, 1603 for Louisiana, 1604 for Mississippi and 1605 for Alabama, plus one for every state taking in evacuees. For months and perhaps years to come, those codes will be used by the Federal Government to pay for, and keep track of, the billions of dollars required to rebuild. The Federal Emergency Management Agency...
...cutting corners doesn't necessarily make things run faster. In many parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, frustration is building over the slow recovery. Relatively few of the promised federal help centers to coordinate assistance have been opened, while some local officials have struggled to get contracts for cleanup projects approved in Washington. Numerous victims of Hurricane Katrina have had trouble applying for assistance, whether online or on the telephone, though bandwidth and staffing have been greatly increased in recent days. One of three Carnival Cruise Lines ships that was chartered to house thousands of relief workers and possibly evacuees...
...gone, by and large, to companies with strong ties to the Bush Administration, including Bechtel, Fluor and the Shaw Group, which recently built a helicopter pad for Vice President Dick Cheney's home in Washington. A $3 billion engineering-and-consulting behemoth that has equally close connections to the Louisiana Democratic Party, the Shaw Group, based in Baton Rouge, La., counts former Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh as one of its lobbyists in Washington and has scored two separate $100 million Katrina-related contracts--one to help the Army Corps of Engineers pump water out of New Orleans and another...
...still seems determined to build trailer cities instead of providing housing vouchers. Bush promised that the feds would rebuild the "great majority" of the "public infrastructure." But what of the houses that were lost that will not be covered by insurance? And there was no talk of rebuilding the Louisiana coastline, the best natural buffer against another ravaging flood of the city. "A greater federal authority and broader role for the armed forces" is what Bush called for, but what will that mean for the longstanding constraints on the armed forces at home? Isn't the military already stretched...