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Hurricane Evacuees Thrive After Switching Schools, Study Says
By Eddy RamÃrez -
On Education
- October 9, 2008
After sharp declines the first year, students who fled New Orleans improved and enrolled in college.
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Saving During Tough Times
By Kimberly Palmer -
Alpha Consumer
- October 3, 2008
Katrina survivor shares his frugal lessons.
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Katrina Aid Recipients Could Be Out in the Cold in February
By Paul Bedard -
Washington Whispers
- September 19, 2008
There are still some 28,000 people receiving free rent and assistance from the government but that's about to change.
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New Orleans After the Hurricane
By John Mashek -
Opinion
- August 14, 2008
Three years after Katrina, New Orleans still a symbol of government failure.
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Hot Docs: An Impending Oil Crunch, New Orleans, Dirty Dining, and More
Nation & World
- August 12, 2008
Today's selection of timely reports.
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Giving Kids a Hand When Disaster Strikes
By Nancy Shute -
On Parenting
- July 24, 2008
Mark Kennedy Shriver talks about creating safe spaces in a scary world
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A Quiet Progress in New Orleans
By Bret Schulte -
Nation & World
- June 11, 2008
Three years after Katrina, residents are finding new reasons to hope.
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Forced Out of FEMA Trailers
By Bret Schulte -
Nation & World
- February 15, 2008
Survivors of hurricanes are victimized once again.
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Philly Does What 'Brownie' Couldn't
By Paul Bedard -
Washington Whispers
- February 7, 2008
This year's 179th Philadelphia Flower Show, the nation's largest, looks to New Orleans for its inspiration and theme.
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Morning Buzz: Dec. 21, 2007
News Desk
- December 21, 2007
A new USA Today/Gallup Poll out today shows Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a statistical tie in New Hampshire. Both candidates were the picks of 32 percent of voters surveyed; John Edwards came in a distant third, at 18 percent. On the Republican side, John McCain is slowly chipping away at Mitt Romney's lead: Romney now leads McCain by only 7 points, 34 to 27 percent.
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The Katrina Controversy
By Renuka Rayasam -
Small Biz Scene
- April 17, 2007
It has been 18 months since Hurricane Katrina whipped through the Gulf Coast. Many small businesses have cleaned up the debris but haven't been able to wash away their woes.
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Have a Heart, and Help a Journalist
Washington Whispers
- January 21, 2007
Even if you hate the media, you've got to have a soft spot for the 190 New Orleans Times-Picayune staffers still trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina. At least that's what Susan Feeney of NPR—and a former T-P writer—and her Friends of the Times-Picayune relief fund hope.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail
- December 12, 2006
One thankful benefactor of Katrina rebuilding: Tulane's rollerblading "minstrel," who writes with gratitude in The Hullabaloo.
Down the road, another student paper in New Orleans, Loyola University's Maroon, tells the story behind a basketball player's tattoo--a tragedy that proved, for him at least, far more life-changing than Katrina.
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Katrina Aftermath Forces Loyola to Consider Tuition Hikes
The Paper Trail
- December 5, 2006