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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>FEMA Extends Temporary Housing Program For Hurricane Ike</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2010/07/06/fema-extends-temporary-housing-program-for-hurricane-ike/</link>
		<comments>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2010/07/06/fema-extends-temporary-housing-program-for-hurricane-ike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katrina connection</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) announced today that the Governor’s request for an extension of the temporary housing unit (THU) program has been granted for eligible Hurricane Ike survivors.  The program, previously extended to July 9, 2010, will now end January 7, 2011. 
“While the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Katrina</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2010/07/06/beyond-katrina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katrina connection</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS, June 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Hurricane Katrina’s deluge was Biblical. When it hit Louisiana and Mississippi the morning of August 29, 2005, the storm caused fearsome destruction. Then the disaster grew worse. The levees – the man-made walls built to protect New Orleans from the water surrounding it – failed. Their collapse flooded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebirth Drummer Tabb Gets CNN&#8217;s Attention</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/11/11/rebirth-drummer-tabb-gets-cnns-attention/</link>
		<comments>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/11/11/rebirth-drummer-tabb-gets-cnns-attention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katrina connection</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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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>
		<comments>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/11/09/ida-thought-you-were-leaving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katrina connection</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>katrina connection</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>katrina connection</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/08/30/obama-where-art-thou/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katrina connection</dc:creator>
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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>New Orleans&#8217; HANO section 8 Program</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/08/21/new-orleans-hano-section-8-program/</link>
		<comments>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/08/21/new-orleans-hano-section-8-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katrina connection</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>SOS: Save Our Schools Shingdig</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/05/11/sos-save-our-schools-shingdig/</link>
		<comments>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/05/11/sos-save-our-schools-shingdig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 04:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katrina connection</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>The Bottom Will Rise</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/05/11/161/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 03:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Road Home elevation grant</title>
		<link>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/02/10/road-home-elevation-grant/</link>
		<comments>http://katrinaconnection.com/blog/2009/02/10/road-home-elevation-grant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>skemp</dc:creator>
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		<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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