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:
June 12, 2006 -
On June 1, the first day of the 2006 hurricane season, the Institute's Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch project issued a major report (pdf) revealing how poorly prepared t