Four years ago and a day, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Today there are multiple stories in news outlets from all over the country. Many of the stories contrast FEMA’s response to the disaster under the Bush administration with how President Barack Obama is directing FEMA to handle the recovery.
The Times-Picayune has penned a love letter to the President, asking him to set foot in the city he promised to rescue from the red tape and inefficiency of a bureaucracy that seemed more inclined to throw up obstacles than send much needed federal funds.
The Associated Press has a refreshing story, outlining how our Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, has embraced Democratic president Obama’s changes in FEMA and the agency’s new director, Craig Fugate. “There is a sense of momentum and a desire to get things done,” Jindal told the AP.
The New York Times charted the recovery with statistics on things like students back in school, public transit ridership, unemployment and home sales.
CNN focused on celebrity recovery efforts spotting.
And then there’s New Orleans resident, comedian and commentator Harry Shearer, who seems pretty discouraged by the lack of help from the new federal administration, and resigned to watching the city struggle to pull itself up by its own shrimp boot straps.
For more news coverage, the TP has a list of links.
... written by Mary Tutwiler , August 28, 2009 - 06:31 pm
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David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Plains Exploration and Production, the Houston company Flores has been running since 2002, is building a deepwater Gulf of Mexico warehouse and storage facility on Bernard Road in Broussard.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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Katrina After the Storm - Special Reports from CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/katrina/
In case you missed AC360 last night:
http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/category/hurricane-katrina/
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/27/photo-gallery-ac-and-james-carville-tour-new-orleans/