Katrina Volunteer & Housing Opportunities

This is a housing services hub for Katrina victims. You can offer up housing space for victims, or hurricane survivors can search for available rooms/houses/apts/etc. This site is working in cooperation with support organizations. Please distribute this website widely...

Emergency housing drive at www.hurricanehousing.org (Pass it on)

Received in my email:Dear MoveOn member,Hurricane Katrina's toll on communities, homes and lives has devastated the nation. Now victims must face the daunting question of where to go next—and we can help.Tens...

FEMA: Web site open for companies to give Katrina victims relief

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up a Web site for companies that can offer goods and services like food, water or shelter for hurricane victims.Company officials can visit...

About Donating Goods to the Red Cross for Areas Impacted by Hurricane Katrina

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 -- When a disaster of the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina strikes and the news broadcasts images of broken, battered and destroyed homes, it is natural for the public to be eager to help...

Citizens and Experts Discuss Honest Elections at Black Box Voting Forums

A week of special guests meeting on-line where all can watch and anyone can register to ask questions and participate. Topics include paper ballots, real recounts, proportional representation, being a voting...

Why Everybody Is a Reporter

Paul Chenoweth never leaves home without his digital camera or video camera. A graduate student at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., he shoots video and photos around town and posts them to his...

Atlanta Lawmakers Approve Panhandling Ban (AP)

AP - A ban on panhandling near downtown Atlanta's tourist attractions was approved by the City Council on Monday, despite hundreds of protesters who called the measure an attack on the poor.

March Honors Voting Rights Act Anniversary (AP)

AP - Thousands of demonstrators streamed down Martin Luther King Jr. Drive chanting, singing and marching on Saturday in support of extending the 40-year-old Voting Rights Act.

Novak meltdown live on CNN?

Novak meltdown live on CNN? That's what readers are telling Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo. Did you catch it?

Re-enactment of 1946 lynchings planned

ATLANTA (AP) — Civil rights activists in Georgia hope to stage a re-enactment today of the lynchings that took place on July 25, 1946. They are looking to gain support for the arrest and prosecution of anyone still alive who may have been involved.

Population boom spawns super cities

In a nation where the population is booming, development is sprawling and the economy is globalizing, the most distant places ...

Nancy Grace's Fall From Grace Begins

NEW YORK - Nancy Grace held up a "crow sandwich" to eat after Michael Jackson was declared not guilty of child molestation, then appeared near tears after talking about the case on CNN Headline News for an hour.

BallerStatus.net News: Stat Quo To Shoot First Video In Atlanta, Prepares For...

There's a new kid on the Shady block, and Stat Quo is his name. With his buzz continuing to grow, the Atlanta native is preparing to shoot a video for his latest street banger "Like Dat."

Atlanta airport to go Wi-Fi

Air travelers will soon be able to connect to the Internet via wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, at the world's busiest passenger airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

The School Lunch Lobby by RON HASKINS - Education Next - Summer 2005

Kids may not like the peas and carrots served up by the nation’s school lunch program, but many of the country’s leading food companies enjoy the billions of dollars in sales that bring those vegetables to their plates. Behind the overcooked vegetables and steam-table...

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