The CQPolitics Forum: Katrina's Aftermath, One Year Later
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CQPolitics.com on Tuesday asked its Board of Advisors the following:
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By Vicki L. Friedman, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 12--SUFFOLK -- Andrew Cospelich packed a few bags a year ago for a trip to Alabama, never dreaming it would be the last time he would set foot in his house.   But home was Gulfport, Miss., devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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Thousands of Gulf Coast students are still displaced two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, and millions of dollars worth of school reconstruction projects remain unfunded, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Just because Katrina was the perfect storm, a catastrophic combo of the wrong hurricane in the wrong place at the wrong time, doesn't mean that history can't repeat itself, leaving another city obliterated by another tempest. It can.
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, did African Americans get fair treatment from the media?
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Depression, suicide, drinking and domestic abuse are up in New Orleans, which is ill-equipped to offer much counseling help, and the hurricane's one-year anniversary only makes it worse
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You might be surprised how far you have to drive from New Orleans, LA to get to the Gulf of Mexico.  Following     the west bank of the Mississippi River along Hwy 23, you go through the separate and well-separated towns of     Belle Chasse, Pointe a la Hache, Port Sulphur, Empire, Boothville, and finally over 60 miles from New Orleans     the tiny oilfield supply and marina town of Venice.    At Empire the highway goes over a pretty tall bridge and on the other side of the canal, beyond the levee     system, Katrina's storm surge came through with a vengeance.  The roads have been cleared but everywhere along     them are the twisted skeletons of steel buildings with vegetation hanging out of shattered second-story     windows.  A refrigerator sits atop the flooded husk of a house.  A perfect square of fenceless pickets     surrounds a perfectly bare concrete slab.  The occasional forlorn FEMA trailer can be spotted parked on one of     many slabs in a field of such slabs that was once a neighborhood.  The carcass of a cow is wedged improbably     in the canopy of a tree twenty feet up.    What is striking is not that the landscape looks like this; most of the coastline of Louisiana and Mississippi     experienced such damage.  What is striking is that it looked like this when I visited last week, in August     2006, almost an entire year after the storm came through.
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BILOXI, Miss., Aug. 28 -- A year after Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi and Louisiana, President Bush and Democratic leaders are converging on the Gulf Coast this week to commemorate the losses while continuing the political argument over the federal response to the country's largest...
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Armed with college degrees and buoyed with seemingly boundless energy, many young professionals have arrived in New Orleans and taken up work two years after Hurrican Katrina. Hanging over these young people, however, is a persistent question. Will they stay?
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Weather anniversaries include last year's Katrina and Rita as well as Andrew, Lili, Betsy and Camille. A year ago there was speculation as to whether rivers and lakes in New Orleans would recover from a so-called toxic sewer.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29 -- President Bush marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by trying to reassure the people of the Gulf Coast that they are not forgotten, declaring that "the town is coming back" at an appearance Wednesday in the devastated Lower Ninth Ward.
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Florida voters and analysts on the political impact of the hurricanes.
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Fewer than 190,000 people are living in New Orleans a year after Hurricane Katrina, according to a door-to-door survey released Thursday.
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Amid all the problems, two years after Katrina there are some positive signs of economic recovery
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Many questioned the intentions of the French government after 9/11. It did not support the war on terror, it was not supportive of U.S. policies at the United Nations and it didn't back the war for a free Iraq.
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What a year. From hurricanes to tsunamis, Mother Nature served up her own brand of wrath even as human-generated war, national politics, poisonings and flu vaccines made for searing and sometimes improbable ...
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A year later, violence is down and al-Qaeda is in retreat. But the gains are still too fragile