Gulf Coast
December 10, 2007 -
MEDIA ADVISORYFor immediate release: Monday, December 10, 2007 For more information, contact: Ajamu Dillahunt (856-3194; ajamu@ncjustice.org) Chris Kromm (419-8311 x26; chris@southernstudies.org)
December 4, 2007 -
By Bill Quigley Guest contributor
November 30, 2007 -
There are reports of confusion and anger at FEMA trailer parks today over the agency's unclear policy on the parks' future.
November 28, 2007 -
Raymond Seed, a civil engineering professor at the University of California at Berkeley, has sent a 42-page letter [PDF] to the head of the American Society of Civil Engineers alleging that the organization colluded with the Army Corps of Engine
November 26, 2007 -
The Washington Post published an excellent report in yesterday's paper on the deep divide in the post-Katrina recovery along the Mississippi coast, where beyond the bright lights of the newly built casinos working-class neighborhoods remain in darkness and more than 10,000 displac
November 9, 2007 -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is still allowing more than 52,000 households displaced by Hurricane Katrina to live in travel trailers despite documented high levels of formaldehyde -- but yet it has cautioned its own employee
November 9, 2007 -
The first congressional veto override in President Bush's seven-year term is especially welcome news in Louisiana, which is set to receive almost 30 percent of the $23 billion allotted by the Water Resources Development Act.