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January 4, 2010

Audubon Society considers oil and gas drilling at sanctuary in Vermilion Parish | NOLA.com

Preservation efforts by groups such as Audubon have been no match for coastal erosion...
That is why Audubon is considering a measure that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago: opening the sanctuary to oil and gas drilling. Profits would be used to pay for marsh restoration, multimillion-dollar land-building projects that Audubon cannot now afford.

Family fun at Mardi Gras | ajc.com

Next Mardi Gras Amy Hunter from the AJC may want to venture off Bourbon Street and catch several Uptown neighborhood uptown parades where fratboy hijinks are not tolerated.

New Orleans’ Mardi Gras celebration may get most of the attention, but towns along the Mississippi Gulf Coast host Mardi Gras celebrations of their own, attracting more than 450,000 visitors each winter.

Local environmental group releases report on excess emissions from refineries | WWL-TV

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade examined state emissions data from 10 of the state's 17 oil refineries. What they found is that the refineries have released anywhere from hundreds of thousands, to millions of pounds of additional emissions during a four-year period, from 2005 to 2008.

From Louisiana to Georgia, Snow Dusts the South

An early December snow storm moved up the East Coast, dumping several inches of snow as far south as Louisiana. Snow caused a few cancellations at Washington's Dulles International Airport.

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November 9, 2009

Tropical Storm IDA Public Advisory

At 9 AM CST...1500 UTC...all hurricane warnings and watches along the Gulf Coast have been discontinued. A tropical storm warning is now in effect from Grand Isle Louisiana eastward to the Aucilla River Florida... including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain.
A tropical storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area within 24 hours.

125 years of arts - Your Life - SunHerald.com

About the same time The Biloxi Herald was first printed in 1884, a young George Ohr was digging clay from the Tchoutacabouffa River to make his inimitable pots.
Otherwise, the cultural train rarely stopped here as performance venues were lacking. The railroad carried road shows, vaudeville performers and opera companies between engagements in New Orleans and Mobile, but if people on the Mississippi Coast wanted opera or theater, they went to New Orleans.

Obama to visit New Orleans, not Gulf Coast | SunHerald.com

The White House on Wednesday indicated that President Barack Obama’s trip to the “hurricane damaged Gulf Coast” will not include Mississippi, nor, apparently, the Gulf Coast.

President Obama Will Visit Gulf Coast In October | WDSU New Orleans

The visit will mark the first time Obama has visited the area since taking office earlier this year.

In February of 2008, candidate Obama addessed an overflow crowd at Tulane University. Some have questioned why he has not returned in the first eight months of his administration.

Katrina wiped out memories of Ivan | montgomeryadvertiser.com | Montgomery Advertiser

People who lived through Hurricane Ivan can't forget the haunting images left by one of the strongest storms ever recorded: condo towers collapsed in roiling surf, splintered homes or flat slabs, fragments of highways lost in a sea of sand. They wish others remembered, too.

Make the history books accurate about Katrina | Postbulletin.com: Rochester, MN

Three months after Hurricane Katrina, the Biloxi Sun Herald described in a front-page editorial "Mississippi's Invisible Coast." It spoke of the fact that the further removed in time we were from Katrina, the less attention outside news reports paid to the plight of our region and its people, and the more it seemed history was being rewritten in a way that would render South Mississippi no more than a postscript to the greatest natural disaster to befall the nation.

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