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- Children Seeking Parents, Louisiana (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)
Provides pictures and descriptions of children who were separated from their parents as a result of Katrina. 9-05
- Parents Seeking Children, Louisiana (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)
Provides pictures and descriptions of children who were separated from their parents as a result of Katrina. 9-05
- -Catastrophic Plan for FEMA for S.E. Louisiana 2004 (IEM)
Provides the plans that were designed to guide the actions of FEMA for a disaster in New Orleans. 9-05
- -08-28-06 Louisiana Coast Sinking and Slipping Slowly into the Gulf (MSNBC News)
"A new report by scientists studying Louisiana’s sinking coast says the land here is not just sinking, it’s sliding ever so slowly into the Gulf of Mexico." 08-06
- 10-21-07 Jindal Wins in Louisiana (Time.com)
"In a widely expected victory Saturday night, Bobby Jindal, a 36-year old Republican congressman, won the Louisiana gubernatorial election, becoming the nation's first governor of Indian-American descent and the youngest chief executive of any state. Jindal took 54% of the vote in the state's off-year open primary, the first since Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and became the first non-white politician to hold the state's highest office since Reconstruction. Jindal, one of the few young rising stars in the GOP ran on a strong reform platform." 10-07
- -04-29-10 Louisiana Governor Declares State of Emergency (CNN News)
"Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Thursday as winds drove a massive oil spill toward the state's coast and authorities scrambled to mitigate its environmental effects."
Also try Louisiana (Weber Publications)Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the state capital, Baton Rouge. 10-00
- Justices - Supreme Court Judge Scalia Socializes With Cheney Before Hearing (CBS News)
"Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana, just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president's appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy task force, the Los Angeles Times says in its Saturday editions."
"While Scalia and Cheney are avid hunters and longtime friends, several experts in legal ethics questioned the timing of their trip and said it raised doubts about Scalia's ability to judge the case impartially, the newspaper pointed out."
"Federal law says 'any justice or judge shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned,' the Times notes."
"Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor, told the Times Scalia should have skipped going hunting with Cheney this year."
" 'A judge may have a friendship with a lawyer, and that's fine. But if the lawyer has a case before the judge, they don't socialize until it's over. That shows a proper respect for maintaining the public's confidence in the integrity of the process,' said Gillers, who is an expert on legal ethics." 2-04
- Lewis and Clark Expedition - A History (LewisandClark.org)
"On February 28, 1803, the Congress appropriated funds for a small U.S. Army unit to explore the Missouri and Columbia rivers and tell the western Indian tribes that traders would soon come to buy their furs. The explorers were to make a detailed report on western geography, climate, plants and animals, and to study the customs and languages of the Indians. Plans for the expedition were almost complete when the President learned that France offered to sell all of Louisiana Territory to the United States. This transfer, which was completed within a year, doubled the area of the United States. It meant that Jefferson's Army expedition could travel all the way to the crest of the Rockies on American soil, no longer needing permission from the former French owners."
Editor's Note: It could be argued that the French never bought the land and really did not have the moral authority to sell it. The Indigenous people who had been on the land for centuries never sold the land to the French and were still there. What the Americans bought was the agreement for the French to provide no military resistance to Americans as the Americans took the land from the Indigenous people. 01-07
- 100 Documents that Shaped America (USNews.com)
Provides 100 documents that were voted the most important in shaping America.
Editor's Note: Uses a traditional view of history. For example, in describing the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, it states "the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land" from the French. Did the French really "own" the land or had they stolen it from the indigenous people who continued to occupy it? If the French did not own it, could they really sell it? 3-04
- Bald Cypress Forests (MSNBC News)
"A tree can inspire awe better than any man-made structure, particularly one that has eclipsed its brethren and thumbed its 'knees' at man’s efforts to turn it into something useful. On Day 12 of our two-week journey down the Mississippi River, we came face-to-trunk with one such forest monarch and met some locals who, while they have very different perspectives on the best uses for trees, share a deep love for a special piece of Louisiana swamp." 8-04
- Shane and Lipton: Agencies Knew of Danger Far in Advance (International Herald Tribune)
"Disaster officials, who had drawn up dozens of plans and conducted preparedness drills for years, had long known that the low-lying city was especially vulnerable. But despite all the warnings, Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed the very government agencies that prepared for such a calamity. On Thursday, as the flooded city descended into near anarchy, frantic local officials blasted the federal and state emergency response as woefully sluggish and confused."
" 'We're in our fifth day and adequate help to quell the situation has not arrived yet,' said P. Edwin Compass 3rd, the New Orleans police superintendent."
Marth Madden, former Louisiana secretary of environmental quality, commented on the lack of preparation for a breach of the levees. She said that the Army Corps "should have had arrangements in place with contractors who had emergency supplies at hand, like sandbags or concrete barriers, the way that environmental planners have contracts in place to handle oil spills and similar events. 'I'm just shocked,' she said." 9-05
- Red Tape for Katrina Volunteers (CBS News)
"From all corners of this country, hundreds of would-be rescuers are wending their way to the beleaguered Gulf Coast in buses, vans and trailers. But government red tape has hampered many who ache to help Katrina's victims."
"Louisiana's Jefferson Parish is desperate for relief, but parish President Aaron Broussard says officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency turned back three trailer trucks of water, ordered the Coast Guard not to provide emergency diesel fuel and cut emergency power lines."
"Why? FEMA has not explained. But the outraged Broussard said Sunday on NBC's 'Meet the Press' that the agency needs to bring in all its 'force immediately, without red tape, without bureaucracy, act immediately with common sense and leadership, and save lives.' " 9-05
- Helping With Long-Term Recovery (BushClintonKatrinaFund.org)
The Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund "will serve as an umbrella organization for the three special funds established by Governors of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi and will focus on collecting donations to assist in the long-term recovery plan for the states affected by this terrible tragedy." 9-05
- FEMA Delays (CBS News)
"Internal documents which came to light on Tuesday reveal that Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown waited until about five hours after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast before he asked his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security workers to support rescuers in the region."
"Brown, in asking Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff to have workers sent to the hurricane zone, is also said to have given the workers two days to arrive."
"The airline industry says the government's request for help evacuating storm victims didn't come until late Thursday afternoon."
"Fire and rescue departments outside Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi were urged by FEMA not to send trucks or emergency workers into the disaster areas without an explicit request for help from state or local governments." 9-05
- "Unimaginable" Cleanup (BBC News)
"In the state’s first major assessment of the environmental havoc in southern Louisiana, Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Mike McDaniel said large quantities of hazardous materials in damaged industrial plants, the danger of explosions and fires, and water pollution were his main concerns eight days after the storm struck."
"He said that in New Orleans alone, it would take 'years' to restore water service to the entire city." 9-05
- Katrina Proved Experts Right (ABC News)
"While not exactly a prophet of doom, Penland spoke bluntly in the winter of 2000 about the fate he foresaw for New Orleans. Ancient levees that protected the city from the Mississippi and nearby Lake Pontchartrain were inadequate and in desperate need of upgrading. The barrier islands that protected the coastline from storm surges were eroding away at an alarming rate, and little was being done to restore them. The land on which New Orleans and many other communities sat was slowing sinking into the Gulf of Mexico."
"It would have cost a few bucks to take care of some of these problems. A multi-agency task force, for which Penland served as a scientific adviser, came up with a price tag for protecting the Louisiana coastline from a hurricane like Katrina. It would cost about $14 billion, the panel concluded." 9-05
- -09-08-05 Environmental Damage from Katrina Huge (Guardian Unlimited)
"The extent of the environmental damage inflicted on the southern US states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama began to emerge yesterday with reports of an entire group of islands disappearing, serious oil slicks and the potential ruin of the seafood industry." 9-05
- Simulation Predicted Havoc (CBS News)
"As Katrina roared into the Gulf of Mexico, emergency planners pored over maps and charts of a hurricane simulation that projected 61,290 dead and 384,257 injured or sick in a catastrophic flood that would leave swaths of southeast Louisiana uninhabitable for more than a year."
"These planners were not involved in the frantic preparations for Katrina. By coincidence, they were working on a yearlong project to prepare federal and state officials for a Category 3 hurricane striking New Orleans." 9-05
- Lessons from Katrina (MSNBC News)
"After seeing New Orleans residents refuse to leave their homes, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he’d 'get a court order, if we have to,' to get people out."
"The mayor of Moore, Okla., Glenn Lewis, heard another message: Citizens, he said, should increase sevenfold the amount of food and supplies they store at home — three weeks’ worth, instead of the previously recommended three days’ — 'after we saw the disaster in Louisiana.' " 9-05
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