Articles > Popular publications > PR Newswire press releases > January-March 2006 > Friday, February 3

Article: Citizens Ask: Does New Orleans Have a Future or Is It Politics and Beignets as Usual?

Article from:
PR Newswire
Article date:
February 3, 2006
Copyright

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The future of New Orleans is on the line when Louisiana legislators meet in a special session Monday, Feb. 6.

The crucial issue: With billions from the Federal government designated to rebuild the failed levee system, six months post Katrina, the question remains: Will there be major reform with a single levee board run by qualified professionals or will politics as usual protect some or all of the system that allowed the people of New Orleans to be devastated by man-made flooding?

Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D-LA) listened to citizens and business owners and appears to be in favor of levee board reform for a ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

Article: Head of New Orleans' Levee Board ...
AP Online;  October 27, 2005 ;     477 words ...AP Online 10-27-2005 Dateline: NEW ORLEANS The head of the Orleans Levee Board has quit amid questions about no-bid contracts ... holdings, including Lakefront Airport in eastern New Orleans. Huey said he welcomes investigations into ...

Article: City's Levee Board head quits over contract ...
The Washington Times;  October 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the president or levee board members receive ... after Katrina hit New Orleans, Mr. Huey signed ... accepted it." A levee board spokesman did not ... apartment furniture. Levee board member Dan Foley told the New Orleans Times-Picayune ...

Article: Governor Blanco picks final East levee board member
New Orleans CityBusiness;  January 30, 2007 ;     428 words ... ... flood protection on the East Bank of New Orleans and Jefferson Parish. "I am pleased ... another outstanding professional to this levee board," Blanco said. "Mr. Pineda has ... protection upon which I have asked the new levee board to focus its attention. I know he will ...

Article: LA. DEMOCRATIC PARTY: REPS. JINDAL, TUCKER UNDERMINE LEVEE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Jindal was for one levee board," Whittington ... Today, in the New Orleans Times-Picayune ... in favor of one levee board," Whittington ... support for one levee board. "Bobby Jindal ... last night in New Orleans: 'Anyone who ...

Article: Louisiana legislature votes to return land and $55 million to ...
Jet;  August 11, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... returned. The land was taken by the Levee Board in 1929 to build a spillway that ... spillway was needed to help protect New Orleans from flooding; however, the area ... the return of the land, but the Levee Board dragged its feet in giving back ...

Article: GOV. BLANCO TO SIGN LEVEE BOARD REFORM, VOTING ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 22, 2006 ;     286 words ... ... Blanco will sign legislation enacting levee board reform (SB 8) and protecting citizens ... Sophie B. Wright Middle School in New Orleans at 10 a.m. When: Thursday, February ... Auditorium 1426, Napoleon Avenue New Orleans, LA.

Article: GOV. BLANCO SIGNS LEGISLATION ENACTING LEVEE BOARD ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 24, 2006 ;     264 words ... ... release: Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco signed legislation enacting levee board reform (SB 8) and protecting citizens' right to vote (SB 22 ... Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, at the Sophie B. Wright Middle School in New Orleans.

Article: GOV. BLANCO APPOINTS MEMBERS TO NEW CONSOLIDATED LEVEE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco today marched forward with levee board reform by appointing members to the Southeast Louisiana Flood ... called a special session in February, largely to consolidate New Orleans area levee boards. She successfully pushed the reform legislation ...

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!

Find articles, research, and archives