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September 14, 2007 -
Women of the Storm -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan alliance of Louisiana women whose lives were affected by Hurricane Katrina and/or Rita -- is working with Dillard, Loyola, Tulane and Xavier universities to encourage the Commission on Presidential Debates to hold one of their 2008 debates at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.
July 6, 2007 -
The New Orleans-based group Advocates for Environmental Human Rights is not happy with remarks about Gulf Coast rebuilding that Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) made at this week's Essence Music Festival in that city.
March 28, 2007 -
New Orleans' public housing residents will get their day in court.
March 22, 2007 -
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin held a press conference earlier this week to set the record straight on remarks first reported by the Washington Post -- and repeated here on Facing South
December 14, 2006 -
If there was ever a time that a limit on state spending shouldn't apply, one could say that recovering from the biggest "natural disaster" in history would be it.
August 28, 2006 -
In our new report, "One Year after Katrina," the Institute concludes that the Gulf Coast recovery has "failed," and that lack of leadership and misp
June 16, 2006 -
Two radio stations (both in California) covered the Institute's Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch project this week: