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February 16, 2010

300 ITT employees lend hand in New Orleans recovery | The Louisiana Weekly

Three hundred of ITT Corporation’s top global leaders rolled up their sleeves to volunteer in New Orleans. On February 11, 2010, ITT employees partnered with two local organizations — HandsOn New Orleans and Bayou Rebirth —to assist in the city’s ongoing recovery efforts after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina through school revitalization and wetland restoration projects...

Hurricane Katrina good for New Orleans schools, Education Secretary Duncan | washingtonpost.com

Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Hurricane Katrina "the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans" because it forced the community to take steps to improve low-performing public schools, according to excerpts from a television interview made public Friday.

Mid-City teaching hospital plans boosted by Charity Hospital arbitration ruling | NOLA.com

A federal arbitration panel awarded Louisiana $475 million Wednesday for hurricane-related damage to Charity Hospital
The $475 million brings the state more than halfway to the financing it needs for building a new hospital on a lower Mid-City tract bordered by South Claiborne Avenue, Canal Street, Galvez Street and Tulane Avenue.

Most of New Orleans Still Struggles to Recover | VOA News

This week VOA visits New Orleans, Louisiana, to learn about the recovery efforts since Hurricane Katrina …
…and plays music from several of the city's many jazz bands.

6,500 Katrina slabs to go from St. Bernard | DailyComet.com

Almost five years after Hurricane Katrina flooded St. Bernard Parish, the government is getting ready to remove the slabs from thousands of demolished houses.
It's being called the largest concrete demolition and recycling job ever undertaken in the United States. Engineers have calculated that the amount of concrete from the slabs across Louisiana could build a four-foot-wide sidewalk from New Orleans to Los Angeles…

Vice President Biden to visit Cameron Parish on Friday | KPLC 7 News Lake Charles, Louisiana

Vice President Joe Biden will be in Louisiana on Friday to announce steps that the Administration is taking to assist recovery and rebuilding efforts in the Gulf Coast region after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Firm renews interest in converting abandoned Six Flags theme park into eastern New Orleans sports complex | Louisiana Politics & Government | NOLA.com

Chris Granger / The Times-Picayune
A California-based firm wants to convert the old Six Flags site in eastern New Orleans into a sprawling sports complex.

Are Brad Pitt’s New Orleans Houses Making it Right? | OK! Magazine-the First for Celebrity News

Brad Pitt wanted to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina when he launched the Make it Right Foundation, to build homes in New Orleans’ blighted Lower Ninth Ward, but it appears the brightly-colored buildings aren’t as popular as he’d hoped.

New Orleans as a cruise hub continues with debut of new ship | Cruise Log | USATODAY.com

It was a long time coming -- more than four years, in fact -- but New Orleans finally has its big ship back.
The 2,758-passenger Carnival Triumph, one of the biggest ships in the Carnival fleet, will make its debut in the Big Easy today, marking the first time since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 that a vessel of its size has sailed out of the city…

Nickelodeon backs out of New Orleans amusement park deal | InterPark Magazine

Nickelodeon, the children's television network and entertainment franchise, has shelved its plans to redevelop the Six Flags theme park in New Orleans, Louisiana…

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