Desiree Evans
Articles by Desiree
February 27, 2009 -
As Facing South reported yesterday, a report released Thursday by the Senate Natural Disaster Recovery subcommittee says that the Federal Emergency Management Authority doesn't have a comprehensive disaster housing plan
February 27, 2009 -
Louisiana officials will be breaking ties with their scandal-plagued Road Home contractor ICF International once ICF's contract expires in June, reports the Times Picayune.
February 27, 2009 -
It hasn't been a good year so far in terms of preventing regulatory failures at Southern manufacturing plants. The nation is still reeling from a massive salmonella outbreak linked to peanut products from the Peanut Corporation of America's plant in Blakely, Ga., that has sickened sickened some 666 people and may have contributed to nine deaths.
February 27, 2009 -
This week across the Gulf Coast and in many places throughout the South, revelry reigned supreme.
February 24, 2009 -
It's been three and a half years since hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and communities across South Louisiana are still struggling to rebuild. Today revelers in the region took a breather to celebrate Mardi Gras.
February 23, 2009 -
Last week the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center provided a 10-minute briefing to community leaders on the scale of the Katrina rebuilding effort compared with the economic stimulus bill, the status of the recovery to-date, and the importance of a White House level federal coordinator to ensu
