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	<description>It&#039;s About More Than Just A Hurricane</description>
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		<title>Rebirth Drummer Tabb Gets CNN&#8217;s Attention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Derrick Tabb, the Rebirth Brass Band drummer, is generating buzz for his &#8220;Roots of Music&#8221; mentoring program, which brings instruments, tutoring, and music education to New Orleans area kids, some still traumatized by the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
Derrick is in the top ten nominated for the annual CNN Heroes Award. He faces some tough competition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/11/11/rebirth-drummer-tabb-gets-cnns-attention/</link>
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		<title>Ida Thought You Were Leaving</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/11/09/ida-thought-you-were-leaving/</link>
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		<title>Water Still Troubled</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/09/13/water-still-troubled/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About It</title>
		<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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		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/09/02/178/</link>
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		<title>Obama, Where Art Thou?</title>
		<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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		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/08/30/obama-where-art-thou/</link>
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		<title>New Orleans&#8217; HANO section 8 Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) has announced they will open the Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section Eight) waiting list from September 6 to September 12, 2009.
Applications can be picked up from the following branches of the New Orleans Public Library:
•	MAIN BRANCH NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY—219 LOYOLA AV
•	ALGIERS REGIONAL BRANCH LIBRARY—3014 HOLIDAY DR
•	ALVAR BRANCH [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/08/21/new-orleans-hano-section-8-program/</link>
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		<title>SOS: Save Our Schools Shingdig</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Also on Saturday, May 16, 2009, from 6:00 PM &#8211; 9:30 PM the Charmaine Neville Band headlines the &#8216;Inaugural Shindig&#8217; for grassroots nonprofit Save Our Schools NOLA. This &#8220;COMMUNITY CELEBRATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS&#8221; will be held at the Federal Reserve Bank Ballroom (The Security Center), 147 Carondelet Street in New Orleans. 
For more info visit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/05/11/sos-save-our-schools-shingdig/</link>
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		<title>The Bottom Will Rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, May 16th, 2009 from 4 &#8211; 6 pm at the Community Book Center, 2523 Bayou Road in New Orleans, the International School for Bottom Up Organizing (ISBO), a nonprofit dedicated to training organizers around the globe, will be hosting a free lecture and book signing event for their new publication, &#8220;The Bottom Will Rise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/05/11/161/</link>
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		<title>Road Home elevation grant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I qualified for an elevation grant from Road Home.  Likely it w
can never happen due to subdivision restrictions, by-laws
covenants.  Does anybody know if elevation grant money
must be spent on elevating the dwelling or can it be spent
on other house repairs suffered from the hurricane?
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		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/02/10/road-home-elevation-grant/</link>
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		<title>Stumbling Blocks</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2008/10/16/stumbling-blocks/</link>
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		<title>Galveston Greed</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2008/09/29/galveston-greed/</link>
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		<title>Katrina and Rita survivors say &#8220;Thank You, Houston&#8221;</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2008/09/26/katrina-and-rita-survivors-say-thank-you-houston/</link>
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