Gulf Coast
June 20, 2007 -
The U.S. Social Forum that opens next week in Atlanta is expected to draw 20,000 activists together from across the country to build movement for change.
June 15, 2007 -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency might have allowed -- even encouraged -- big insurance corporations to rip off taxpayers after Hurricane Katrina. But it certainly won't let John and Jane Q. Storm Victim get any more than they're due.
June 15, 2007 -
We've been reporting on allegations that private insurance companies may have defrauded the National Flood Insurance Program out of potentially billions of dollars by misattributing property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina's winds to flooding.
June 13, 2007 -
We reported last week on the unsealing of a federal whistle-blower lawsuit filed in Louisiana by former insurance adjusters alleging that eight insurance companies defrauded the National Flood Insurance Program out of potentially billions of dollars by misattributing property damage cause
June 6, 2007 -
New Orleans housing advocates are holding a rally today in support of H.R. 1227, the Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act.
June 4, 2007 -
Hurricane Katrina is still killing people almost two years after it struck. Or is it? There's some disagreement in the medical community -- though the closer one gets to local front-line caregivers, the stronger the consensus becomes that the storm continues to claim the lives of those who survived the immediate destruction.
June 1, 2007 -
Following our coverage in Salon last week about the slow pace of recovery in post-Katrina Mississippi -- "slower than molasses in winter," one resident told us -- Reuters has a piece on small towns struggling to rebuild in th