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...state that what happened in New Orleans could not be anticipated. That is a blatant lie. It was common knowledge that we were vulnerable and the levees were inadequate for a hurricane as strong as Katrina. For decades, our local and state officials have fought for funding to rebuild the eroding coasts and levees. Although I know that my immediate family and friends are safe, my family has lost all its material possessions. I am sad and angry but not broken. I am alive. I am one of the fortunate ones. But what about my neighbors? Robin Rocque San Diego...
...time being, Tulane is holding onto fall tuition, using it to rebuild and repair its facilities. While the university has pledged to reimburse students who have chosen to withdraw, many displaced students wish the funds could come sooner. Those enrolled as visiting students elsewhere will continue paying Tulane’s tuition—regardless of how much their host school might cost. The arrangement benefits students going to places like Harvard, where tuition is waived and the education comparable. But those spending their semester at more modestly priced institutions feel somewhat cheated...
...result, Nagin himself has become part of the debate over how best to rebuild the devastated Big Easy. Critics suggest the qualities that endeared him to Orleanians before Katrina, among them his political inexperience and his shoot-from-the-hip approach, make him the wrong man for the massive, labyrinthine job ahead. But his supporters, especially members of the business community, say the reconstruction project offers Nagin, 49, a chance to dramatically change not only New Orleans' skyline but also the more larcenous and dysfunctional side of its free wheeling culture. "I'm still high on him," says Mark Lewis...
...take a storm to take everything away from them,” Beasley said of the low-income victims in New Orleans. “Not only did it destroy the nicer parts of the city. It also destroyed the bad parts of town. Are we going to rebuild those parts? We cannot allow this possibility of a blessing to pass...
...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 (FEMA) will end up reimbursing the Coast Guard for fuel used to power helicopters in rescue missions, the city of New Orleans for the overtime of its police and fire departments, and Houston for the costs of housing evacuees in the Astrodome...