katrina

April 11, 2007 - The company's ads boast, "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there."Æ But apparently the nation's largest insurer didn't want engineers who were actually neighbors of Hurricane Katrina victims to inspect storm-damaged properties, arguing that they were "too emotionally involved."

January 3, 2007 - A national civil rights group worries that a recent New York Times story about New Orleans' post-Katrina baby boom among Latinos-and the stress it's placing on the city's storm-devastated health care system-promotes prejudice against the people doing reconstruction's dirty work.

November 29, 2006 - Speaking of the problems plaguing New Orleans' justice system since Katrina, today's Times-Picayune has a story about a man who came to help rebuild the city -- and ended up spendin

August 29, 2006 - One year ago today, Chris Kromm had asked me to guest blog for a week at Facing South while he was away on vacation. August 29th was my first day. I had several topics lined up to discuss, but the news of Katrina quickly took over. Here is a flashback to Facing South's day-by-day chronicle of the events as they unfolded... Mon. Aug. 29: Katrina and New Orleans Those of us who have lived in Southern coastal states are all too familiar with hurricanes, but we haven’t seen anything like Katrina in over a decade. The last Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the U.S.

August 28, 2006 - Over the last year, over $9 billion has been given to corporate contractors for post-Katrina relief and recovery -- and as we and others have revealed, m

August 14, 2006 - There are dozens of events being planned, big and small, for the one-year annivesary of Katrina, coming this August 29.

June 19, 2006 - The Institute was out in force at the Southeast Social Forum held here in Durham, NC this weekend. The gathering is a run-up to the U.S.