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Tenemos trabajo viajaremos -- Have jobs, will travel
Thousands of immigrant workers have become crucial to the booming construction industry but will they be forced to go home?Dark Tourism
Katrina Tours! As has been widely reported, tours of the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina have begun. What motivates people to engage in "dark tourism"? Is it harmful or helpful to the region? Is it just...It was a heckuva phrase.. (Reuters)
Reuters - Call it the wrong phrase at the wrong time but "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job" was named on Thursday as U.S. President George W. Bush's most memorable phrase of 2005.New Orleans Returns to Eviction as Usual
Click to Download the VIDEO 20 mgs 6 minutesHere's a Big Phat Version 42 mgs Eviction is the word of the day in New Orleans. Many landlords have taken to throwing tenants personal belonings on the sidewalk...Help bring Byron home
On November 4, 2005 a nineteen year old young man made a call to his grandmother stating he was scared and would she come to were he was.When the grandmother arrivied, she saw that the young man was upset and told him to follow her into their home town of Milton Freewater...American History Now: SOME WILL DO ANYTHING
SOME WILL DO ANYTHING NOVEMBER 18, 2005Do you want know why I am an Independent? THIS IS WHY I AM AN INDEPENDENT!!! (http://itmolp.blogspot.com/2005/11/daniels-switches-to-republican.html) It seems that Baton Rouge's most-inspiring Democratic loser in the last Mayoral...American History Now: AHN RADIO UPDATE
Tonight, American History Now Radio was born... and... will now start... a weekly LIVE show hosted on the website... The American History Now Journal will now have my printed and audio opinions, combining the...
created by DennisMelancon | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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New Niche Site
A freshman college student has created a new niche website called Fund My Stuff. The goal of this site is to earn revenue by advertisements. The unique spin on the site is that the owner of the site displays the...
created by Fund My Stuff | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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New Orleans’ Displaced Struggle for Housing, Jobs, Neighborhoods
New Orleans’ Displaced Struggle for Housing, Jobs, Neighborhoods by Michelle Chen. The management of Forest Park Apartments in the Algiers district told all tenants to vacate their apartments by October 17,...
created by Benjamin Melançon | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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The weatherman nobody heard
NEW ORLEANS -- On Aug. 28, the storm was still a day away. Evacuations were under way and people were just starting to arrive at the Superdome. At his desk at the National Weather Service office in Slidell, outside New Orleans, meteorologist Robert Ricks knew he had a job...PluggedIn: Technology that took on a hurricane
NEW YORK (Reuters) - While big media covered the mass destruction brought by Hurricane Katrina with helicopter images and satellite weather maps, blogs have been telling stories with similar force, but on a much more personal level. Linking to the Internet's global computer...Hurricane tab to be costliest U.S. relief effort
WASHINGTON - The era of big government is back. President Bush is presiding over what is sure to be the most expensive government relief and reconstruction operation in U.S. history. With estimates of the federal tab ranging up to $200 billion for rebuilding New Orleans and...Bush Says Federal Funds Will Pay Bulk of Hurricane Recovery
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush will tell the nation tonight that the federal government will work closely with local officials to rebuild cities demolished by Hurricane Katrina and pay most of the cost of infrastructure repairs. ``The work that has begun...Senate kills bid for Katrina commission
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans on Wednesday scuttled an attempt by Sen. Hillary Clinton to establish an independent, bipartisan panel patterned after the 9/11 Commission to investigate what went wrong...Is New Orleans Florida's future?: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
I, like many Floridians, am upset with our government's response in the disaster-stricken Gulf Coast. Despite millions of tax dollars that have been spent on 9-11 training and hundreds of millions that we spend each year on our military and military equipment, our fellow...
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