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Chair has eye on small fry
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 27 days ago
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When a witness at a March Senate hearing on small business accused state and local governments of not doing enough to prepare for disasters, he got a sharp retort from the committee chair. You're talking, with all due respect, to a person who had a
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Audit says Katrina aid may have been misspent
Pyŏngyang :: North Korea | 1 month ago
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Federal investigators say as much as $700 million in federal aid intended to help some 24,000 Louisiana families elevate their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 may have been misspent. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says North Korea's
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Report faults La. 'Katrina cottages'
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Legislative requirements meant for permanent housing increased costs and delayed "Katrina cottages" in Louisiana, a state audit report said. The report released Monday found that the 461 "Katrina cottages" built by the state with a $74.5 million
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Why 58 Representatives Who Voted For Hurricane Katrina Aid Voted Against Aid For Sandy
Garrett :: WA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Clerk of the House of Representatives What accounts for the legislators' changed votes? "The difference is the fiscal state of the country," Jason Klindt, a spokesman for Rep. Sam Graves, a Missouri Republican, wrote in an email explaining why Graves
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Inola woman pleads guilty in last Hurricane Katrina fraud case in Tulsa federal court
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
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Marina Concetta Yancy, 52, admitted in her plea agreement on a bank fraud charge that she was not a victim of the hurricane and did not live in Pass Christian, Miss., at the time of the August 2005 storm. She was actually living in Tulsa at the time,
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Beware of scams that follow natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy
Port au Prince :: Haiti | 6 months ago
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Natural disasters can bring out the best in people, and also the worst. Following disasters like superstorm Sandy, opportunists and scam artists prey on victims as well as those who want to help...Hundreds of price gouging complaints, ranging from
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Well: The Mental Fallout of the Hurricane
Little Ferry :: NJ :: USA | 7 months ago
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43 pm Craig Ruttle/Associated Press Olivia Loesner, 16, hugged her uncle, John Ruff, deputy fire chief in Little Ferry, N.J., after she was rescued from her flooded home in Little Ferry on Tuesday...In the small Connecticut town where I grew up, the
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Another sign of Isaac's havoc: dislodged burial caskets
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
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You are logged in as Close Rick Jervis Share Comments Story Highlights Tombs, caskets floated up to a mile away "This has to be done with dignity and respect" Officials are hunting down cemetery remains dislodged in Hurricane Isaac 4:41AM EST
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Cheaper Gas + Shaky Economy = Gulf Coast Recovery
Mobile :: AL :: USA | 11 months ago
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Articles "What we see is when there is a high degree of uncertainty and low consumer confidence, people will still travel; they just travel shorter distances," said Herb Malone, head of Alabama's Gulf Shores and Orange Beach Tourism Department, which
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Drawn back home: Jesmyn Ward has lived all over but always returns to DeLisle, Miss.
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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tool goes here Jesmyn Ward was struggling. Despite two master's degrees and five years of work experience, her job situation was difficult: She commuted an hour each way to a low-paying college teaching job...Her agent tried and failed, and tried
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