New Orleans writers struggle to pen rebirth story
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Quirky characters, raucous music, jazz funerals, a warm climate and plenty of service-industry jobs made New Orleans an ideal base for writers and a rich backdrop for their work.
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Two years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still licking its wounds but efforts are being made to bring back the tourists that once made the Big Easy a major draw.
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Writers struggling to find a publisher are taking the high-tech, grass-roots approach.
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With New Orleans still waiting for an infusion of federal cash and a rebuilding plan, the mercurial reelected  mayor has   his work cut out for him.
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New Orleans, the "Big Easy" city famous for its good times and relaxed attitude, has become the Big Uneasy in recent weeks as its murder count has soared and anger grown at local leaders unable to stop the violence.
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Singer Aaron Neville, one of New  Orleans' long string of musical sons, hasn't returned to his  hometown for more than a year because he says he can't bear to  see the battering the city took from Hurricane Katrina.
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Two years after Katrina, prominent New Orleanians give their thoughts on rebuilding and recovery
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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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NEW ORLEANS, June 20 -- In this city still half-emptied from one of the worst floods in American history, one question provokes the ever present doubt.
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Breakfasting on beignets in the French Quarter on a Sunday morning, Dorothy Washington was a tourism official's dream &#151; she saw none of the scars that still mark most of New Orleans 11 months after Hurricane Katrina and she had heard nothing about six weekend shooting deaths.
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City planners who have been working independently will be brought together to develop a reconstruction plan to rebuild the city after Hurricane Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin announced Wednesday.
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As the incoming governor prayed for strength to lead Louisiana through its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, the city's infirm gathered at a Mass to pray for their own healing and honor the 19th century priest many call the saint of New Orleans.
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The French Quarter may be open for business, but not enough tourists are showing up to buy. And if New Orleans stands any chance of having a real economic recovery, that has to change
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New Orleans is my hometown. And it's dying. Despite billions of dollars in aid, recovery programs with catchy names and an outpouring of volunteer effort, New Orleans is not recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
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The city is staged for a sustainable recovery from Hurricane Katrina's floods but a lack of affordable housing and other challenges could impede its progress, a demographer said in a new report.
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The route to the moon and perhaps to Mars now goes through New Orleans Â and the detour couldn't come at a better time in the city's struggle to rebuild its shattered economy after Hurricane Katrina.
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After Hurricane Katrina inundated his city, as Mayor Ray Nagin surveyed what was already being called the nation's worst natural disaster, press secretary Sally Forman asked if he was OK, she writes in a new book on the man and the post-storm chaos.