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...floods hit the St. Bernard housing project in New Orleans' Seventh Ward with a determined fury. In desperation, says Randy Nathan, 20, trapped residents screamed at passing helicopters and set off firecrackers to attract attention. But no rescuers came. "We had to make a move," he says. "The water was rising. We had too many babies and my grandma...
...keep hearing people say on TV and in print that they don't recognize "this New Orleans." Perhaps they closed their eyes or didn't pay close attention when they were there. While I understand the temptation to wax nostalgic about the architecture of the Ninth Ward homes, the beauty of the Garden District, the charm of the French Quarter and so on, such musings perpetuate a romantic notion of the place that doesn't track with reality. Sure, there are isolated spots dotting the tourist maps that are well stocked with pristine prettiness and antebellum hospitality, but like...
...hauled away, not to mention miles of abandoned housing. Sylvia Barabino, who lived in heavily flooded New Orleans East, drove in from Baton Rouge where she has been living since Katrina to vote. Her home is uninhabitable and the elementary school where she taught in the Lower Ninth Ward has not reopened. "This particular race is going to determine what's going to happen to New Orleans," she said. The fact that her neighbors didn't return to vote in large numbers is ominous to Pinsonat. "A lot of people have been watching," he said, "and don't see much...
...Sylvia Barabino, like a lot of New Orleans voters, will be eagerly watching. "It's been eight months, and I don't see nothing going on in the Ninth Ward or the Lower Ninth Ward," she said. "And that's my biggest concern. I'm ready to come home...
...Taming of the Shrew.” He will not bow under her fuss and noise. Neither will he abandon her.‘MUSICIANS’ CITY’Fountain is one of the few who has moved back into this bit of the Upper Ninth Ward. He is little less than a block away from the Habitat for Humanity site where some 40 Harvard undergraduates helped to lay foundations this past spring break.But the healthy construction site was one of the few things moving in the neighborhood. In a place hard hit by Katrina, the growing subdivision Musician?...