La. voters deciding on levee boards
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Louisiana voters were deciding Saturday whether to consolidate the New Orleans-area's levee boards, the government agencies whose politically appointed members took criticism after Hurricane Katrina for failing to maintain the area's levees and floodwalls.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 5--La Crosse city officials are considering what type of requirements to impose on developers seeking city assistance for projects.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 18--PASCAGOULA -- Jackson County supervisors will again consider an appeal from a Florida developer who wants to build something other than single-family homes in an area of Fontainebleau north of St. Andrews.
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By Dori Berman  The Board of Public Works could decide today the fate of a large residential project proposed for Kent Island, but it remains to be seen whether Queen Anne's County officials will show up to voice their opinions.
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When voters in San Fransisco go to the polls in November to select their top choice for a seat on the city's Board of Supervisors, they also get to pick their second choice -- and even their third.
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By John Dickey, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 12--Levees took a beating during high water this winter, driving the number of critical erosion sites from 29 to 140, a state official said.
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Scientists and state officials are considering a broad diversion of the Mississippi River into LouisianaÂs sediment-starved marshes.
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 9--The La Crosse Common Council voted Thursday to delay a final decision on the proposed public intoxication ordinance for 30 days.
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HULL - Voters are casting ballots today in the annual town election.  The polls, at the Memorial Middle School on Central Avenue, will be open until 8 p.m.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - A group of residents called Monday for Congress to set up an independent, bipartisan panel similar to the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate why levees failed during Hurricane Katrina.
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By Kent, Joan  A proposal to have the city's engineer prepare alternative plans and estimates for the levee entrances at Riverside Park won approval Tuesday from the La Crosse Plan Commission.
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The government's repairs to New Orleans' hurricane-damaged levees may put the French Quarter in greater danger than it was before Hurricane Katrina, a weakness planners said couldn't be helped, at least for now.
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ST. FRANCISVILLE, Louisiana  - A jury began deliberating on Friday the fate of a couple accused of negligent homicide in the flooding deaths of 35 elderly people at their Louisiana nursing home during Hurricane Katrina.
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Voters were deciding Saturday whether incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin or challenger Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu should oversee this city&#039;s long recovery from Hurricane Katrina &amp;#151; one of the largest reconstruction projects in U.S. history.
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Voters are sending mixed signals about how they want their communities to grow, embracing strict controls in some places and rejecting them in others.
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New Orleans residents depressed by the city's slow rebound 15 months after Hurricane Katrina have a chance to pick a new voice in Washington on Saturday but their frustration is likely to keep many from the voting booth.
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A trickle of voters across southern Louisiana turned out Saturday to settle the last bit of unfinished business from the 2004 election season &#151; runoffs in two bitterly contested U.S. House races.