One week shy of a year ago, the Bring New Orleans Back commission unveiled their recommendations for recovery and rebuilding NOLA. The response was underwhelming, as the Washington Post wrote in January 2006:
Hundreds of residents packed into a hotel ballroom interrupted the presentation of the long-awaited proposal with shouts and taunts, booed its main architect […]
Of all the stories to come out of New Orleans in the days immediately after Katrina, the incident on Danziger Bridge was, and continues to be, the most opaque.
Fourteen people shot! No, eight! No, 5! They were shooting at the contractors! No, they were running away! No, they shot two police! The […]
Although victims of Katrina and Rita are scattered all over the United States, this news is likely to be received with a fair amount of hostility in Houston:
A judge ordered the federal government to resume paying rent and make three months of retroactive payments for about 2,600 hurricane evacuee households in Houston and thousands more […]
The water had barely started to rise in the streets of New Orleans when people started looking for someone to blame. Fingers were pointed in every direction — any direction but their own, or that of their interest group. The fault lay with: the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bush administration, Governor Blanco, Mayor Nagin, […]
From the Houston Chronicle this morning:
Houstonian tied to 5 slayings
A Houston man is connected to at least five recent killings — including the slaying of a 15-year-old Hurricane Katrina evacuee — all stemming from a battle over narcotics trafficking, police said.
Antonio Lee Williams, 26, was charged with capital murder and […]