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	<title>KatrinaConnection TalkBox &#187; Texas</title>
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	<description>It&#039;s About More Than Just A Hurricane</description>
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		<title>We Want Our Lives Back Too</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2010/07/26/we-want-our-lives-back-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the recent movie &#8220;Brooklyn&#8217;s Finest&#8221;, actor Don Cheadle, as an undercover cop, tells his superiors that he &#8220;wants his life back&#8221;. When I first watched this scene, I couldn&#8217;t help but be distracted from the storyline and think of someone named Tony Hayward. This post is long overdue.
Did the BP CEO watch this movie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ida Thought You Were Leaving</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/11/09/ida-thought-you-were-leaving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Hurricane Ida reminds us, where we choose to work, pray, play and to call home can be a perilous area, even in November. 
Along the awe-inspiring coast of the Gulf of Mexico, millions of Americans enjoy pleasures like coastal breezes, outstanding food, fishing, boating, and many other unique amenities of life.
But (the word that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Still Troubled</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/09/13/water-still-troubled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a reminder that the Academy Award-nominated, Sundance Film Festival Best Documentary &#8220;Trouble The Water&#8221; was released on DVD a few weeks ago, on August 25.  
This remarkable piece of work is unlike any other Katrina-themed documentary ever made, and is raw, inspiring, surrealistic, and subtly sensational, but that&#8217;s only a part of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About It</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/09/02/178/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of reporters for the non-profit website ProPublica.org looked into the Katrina-era incidents involving Dr Anna Pou at Memorial Medical Center and shootings by self-proclaimed vigilantes, and share their views in this video from Bloggingheads.tv:

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		<title>Obama, Where Art Thou?</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/08/30/obama-where-art-thou/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though the President didn&#8217;t make it to the Gulf Coast for Katrina&#8217;s anniversary this year, we all know he deserves a vacation. And even during vacation, he sent a message. Watch it here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32607347#32607347
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		<title>Stumbling Blocks</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2008/10/16/stumbling-blocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These last few weeks have been painful. Besides a  &#8220;computer arm&#8221; (a cousin of tennis elbow, I guess)  not being able to write about all the Katrina-related news that&#8217;s been popping up, and watching our economy suffer has been painful, too. And then to watch our government try to bail out Wall Street [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Galveston Greed</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2008/09/29/galveston-greed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certain guests at Daniel Yeh&#8217;s hotel in Galveston after Hurricane Katrina had rooms paid for by FEMA, and Yeh probably thought he&#8217;d latched onto an easy way to guaranteed guests and payments. Problem was, the guests weren&#8217;t really guests or Katrina evacuees, or the rooms were unoccupied, or were even occupied with paying guests.

Yeh, 55, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katrina and Rita survivors say &#8220;Thank You, Houston&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2008/09/26/katrina-and-rita-survivors-say-thank-you-houston/</link>
		<comments>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2008/09/26/katrina-and-rita-survivors-say-thank-you-houston/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katrina and Rita survivors in Houston had planned a special day on September 13, But Houston had a problem: Hurricane Ike arrived. And it wasn&#8217;t to be a hurricane party, but a show of thanks. 
&#8220;Thank You, Houston&#8221;  which had been planned for September 13 as a commemoration of the hospitality Houstonians showed Katrina [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEMA says NO to trailers in Houston</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2008/09/23/fema-says-no-to-trailers-in-houston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government leaders from throughout the Gulf Coast were in D.C. today to ask Congress for money. FEMA said the agency would provide some temporary housing in Houston, but willl not allow its dreaded deathtrap trailers there, while New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin wants his city reimbursed for the recent hurricane evacuations. 
Check out the full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shelter From Hell</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2008/09/19/the-shelter-from-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If only I had talked to 63 year-old Lucille Canty and her family before they evacuated to Alexandria, Louisiana for Hurricane Gustav (see &#8220;Mass Evacuation Worked In Rehearsal, But..&#8221;). 
In 2005, thousands of us Katrina evacuees from New Orleans who were in Lake Charles became Rita evacuees, escorted non-stop by state police through sleepy southwestern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ike is an inconvenience for Houston, not devastation</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2008/09/15/ike-is-an-inconvenience-for-houston-not-devastation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston has seen a good share of tropical storms and flooding, including at least 21 significant floods since the year 2000, and always bounces back.]]></description>
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		<title>Pray For Those Affected By Hurricane Ike</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2008/09/13/pray-for-those-affected-by-hurricane-ike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by the devastation from Hurricane Ike. While Ike was no Katrina, the death, pain, hurt, suffering, and damages left behind from the Carribean Ocean to Louisiana and Texas is especially heartfelt in our Katrina-ravaged communities. May you be blessed with a speedy recovery.
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