Word: louisiana
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Some had gutted homes over spring break. Others had worked with New Orleans natives to create a rebuilding plan for the rest of the community. Twenty-eight students from across the University who had spent breaks volunteering in Louisiana and Mississippi gathered for the first time yesterday night for “Rebuilding The Gulf Cost: What Can We Do To Help?” Their ideas reflected the differences in their volunteer experiences. Some undergraduates who had helped film oral histories laid out plans for a policy group at the Institute of Politics. S. Margaret Spivey...
...rapidly too, as outdoor agencies transform static boards into digital light-emitting-diode (led) or liquid-crystal-display (lcd) screens that flash new images every few seconds. The dynamic screens allow marketers to fine-tune their messages, depending on the time of day. Lamar Advertising, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has converted 75 vinyl highway boards into digital led displays at a cost of $300,000 to $500,000 each. "Advertisers can change their messages almost instantaneously," says Sean Reilly, Lamar's president and coo. Reilly plans to put up 200 of those smart boards before...
...those votes are not in the city. Evacuees live in 44 states now. The NAACP and other groups filed a lawsuit to delay the election, establish polling centers out of state and force FEMA to turn over the addresses of evacuees to the campaigns. They lost. The state of Louisiana agreed to set up 10 polling places outside of New Orleans but in-state, near the borders of neighboring states. Community groups like ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which help low- and moderate-income families, have organized buses leaving Monday from Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Atlanta...
...Louisiana Secretary of State Al Ater met with a similar lack of success when he went to Houston to spread the word about the election and absentee voting. Not a single displaced voter from New Orleans showed up. His office has spent $400,000 on an informational ad campaign, using change-of-address lists to get voter information to evacuees. He promised 300 employees at polling sites on election day and has spent $50,000 on signs to direct people to other sites if their usual polling station was devastated by Katrina and had to be moved. "Let me tell...
...good for the Democrats. "I?m not going to sugarcoat this," says Donna Brazile, chair of the DNC?s Voting Rights Institute and a New Orleans native. "We all know that in terms of the Democratic Party, in order for us Democrats to be viable in the state of Louisiana, we need New Orleans to come back. That?s where the bulk of our voters are. Over one-third of the Democratic vote comes from those parishes impacted by Hurricane Katrina." In this scenario, Landrieu is running purely to save the future hide of his sister, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu...