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...months ago, I wrote that TIME would sponsor a presidential debate in New Orleans. I'm delighted to join hands with a local organization spearheading that effort: Women of the Storm, a nonpartisan group of women whose families were affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. They have already persuaded six candidates to write a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates supporting the idea. "A debate would keep a spotlight on New Orleans and the challenges we face," says Anne Milling, founder of Women of the Storm. "We're not whole...
...deadliest and the costliest natural disasters in American history, killing more than 1,800 people and generating about $80 billion in damage. In addition, Louisiana’s commissioner of higher education estimated that 80,000 students were displaced by Katrina and, one month later, Hurricane Rita...
Then the fair's reigning Pork Queen, Rita Cook, escorted the senators off to see Big Red, the fair's biggest boar. And while many jokes were made about pork barrel spending, Thompson was quick to stress that one of the central tenets of his campaign is a conservative push to cut spending - particularly from entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid which he called "gradually bankrupting future generations in this country." In his soapbox speech, he accused other G.O.P. candidates of ignoring the budget, "other than giving lip service to it," he said...
...Among the countless images of suffering that lay in Katrina's wake, flooded St. Rita's nursing home in the New Orleans suburb of St. Bernard Parish, was one of the most harrowing. The owners of the nursing home, Salvador and Mabel Mangano - 67 and 65, respectively - quickly came to be seen as villains in the tragedy for choosing not to evacuate their residents, and now they face charges of negligent homicide. The trial was moved to this town on the banks of the Mississippi River north of Baton Rouge after defense lawyers claimed their clients couldn...
...Whether or not it works for the defense will be determined over the next few weeks. Even if acquitted, the Manganos still face more than 30 lawsuits from families of residents who died at St. Rita...