New Orleans kinda ready to re-open for Gustav evacuees

Some areas of the city are open and ready for returning evacuees of Gustav.  At least 10,000 in New Orleans never evacuated and are finding few gas stations open and few grocery stores ready for business.  My neighborhood is without power, but all other utilities...

Section 8 loophole thwarts evacuees return to New Orleans- We Don't Want no S...

"Two weeks ago in Houston, two Katrina evacuees hauled the final boxes out of their apartments. But even as their landlords prepared to change their locks, Gina Martin and Samantha Egana couldn't go home to New Orleans, because their Section 8 vouchers were stalled by the...

Sask. evacuees start heading home

I'm glad to hear the intensity of the fires did not reach the "pyro" levels anticipated. It will be interesting to read the reports that are filed by some of the scientists who went to Saskatchewan to observe.   ...

Cinema screens, singers to lure Indonesian evacuees

""We will set up an outdoor cinema at several shelters in Blitar district in order to attract people to evacuate," said Kamtono, a local official from one of the two districts that would be affected by the volcano blowing. "We are having big difficulties asking people to...

California wildfire evacuees face hardships as they return home

This people must actually be brave and hardy."With some of the worst wildfires dying down, many Southern Californians lucky enough to find their homes still standing could nevertheless face hardships for weeks to come, including polluted air, no electricity and no drinking...

Those who fled Katrina on own did better (AP)

" NEW ORLEANS - Evacuees who escaped Hurricane Katrina's flooding on their own are faring better almost a year later than the thousands rescued and dumped in cities saturated with evacuees, according to a report released Monday. The study, conducted by seven law firms...

Youth Curry - Insight on Indian

"The Indian embassy in Beirut has an unusual problem on its hands, says the Hindustan Times. While the last of the 2,000 Indian evacuees left by naval ship on July 26, there’s been a steady stream of Indians turning up at the embassy after that. The problem: most of them...

Feel Free To Kill Canadians

"Under the Harpocrites Israel is given a free hand to kill Canadian civilians and UN peacekeepers. Unlike the Liberals, who let the U.S. do that to us. But at least under the Liberals they protested the Canadian deaths by 'friendly fire'. This isn't even friendly and the...

Misleading Headline

"Mackay Holds Fast Oh I thought he was fasting. Instead he is making sure he gets another date with the cougar of the South, Connie Rice."