Environment

March 12, 2010 - Organizations and individuals that were involved in the Hurricane Katrinarecovery effort in New Orleans are now applying the lessons theylearned following that disaster to help the people ofearthquake-stricken Haiti. Launched shortly after the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated theHaitian capital of Port-au-Prince and surrounding region, the effortwas initially called the Haiti Emergency Village Project but has sincechanged its name to the Louisiana/Haiti Sustainable Village Project. Itinvolves more than 40 disaster recovery and urban infrastructure

March 11, 2010 - By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica A second former New Orleans Police Department officer has been charged in federal courtin connection with the Sept. 4, 2005 shootings on the Danziger Bridge.Jeffrey Lehrmann, who left the NOPD to work for U.S. Immigration andCustoms Enforcement, was charged last month with concealing a crime,

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March 1, 2010 - There's an effort underway in Louisiana to use the 2010 Census to pull in federal funding for Cajun and Creole cultural programs, and it's stirring up some controversy over how to best classify members of the state's French-speaking cultures.