Blanco: La. finds money for `Road Home'
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco said her administration has found up to $700 million in state money to put into Louisiana's grant program for rebuilding hurricane-damaged homes, which faces a deficit of as much as $5 billion.
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Gov. Jon S. Corzine will argue that almost quadrupling highway tolls over the next 15 years could help generate as much as $38 billion to help the state pay off its debt.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 5--GULFPORT -- Harrison County leaders on Monday bickered over spending nearly $9,000 on GPS tracking devices for their deputies, saying the items should have been purchased years ago as part of a $25 million federal project.
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John McCain ended the year with $3 million cash on hand and a $4.5 million debt, but he raised $7 million in the first three weeks of January and planned to capitalize on his Florida victory Tuesday with coast-to-coast fundraisers over the next three days.
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Louisiana officials on Tuesday night set a July 31 deadline for applicants to the Road Home program because the program is expected to be far more expensive than was originally anticipated.
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By Sumathi Reddy, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 21--A newly formed Baltimore nonprofit received city authorization yesterday to spend $100,000 from a state grant to buy and rehabilitate one of the former homes of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday.
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Only $1 billion of the $77 billion the city is seeking from the Army Corps of Engineers is for infrastructure damages it says it suffered because of levee breaches during Hurricane Katrina. The rest is for such things as the city's tarnished image and tourist industry losses.
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A major donor to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will benefit from $4 million in state financing for a road project providing access to a 6,000-acre real estate project the donor's company is developing.
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By GERARD SHIELDS  WASHINGTON - Though Louisiana gained billions in offshore oil and gas royalty revenue at the close of Congress, it was unable to push through funding for the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane protection project over the objections of a lone Oklahoma senator.  U.S.
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Lloyd Lake contends that Reggie Bushâs family accepted cash, a car, rent-free housing and other goods from him, and he is seeking repayment.
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Marion "Suge" Knight's seven-bedroom, 9 1/2-bath home has been placed on the market for $6.2 million, part of the rap music mogul's financial overhaul under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Louisiana taxpayers paid more than $360,000 for the failed prosecution of the owners of a nursing home where 35 people died during Hurricane Katrina, according to documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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Jimmie Edwards of Minnesota says he&#39;s thankful he no longer sleeps on the streets, that a &quot;supportive housing&quot; program helped him find a permanent home and regain his health.
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By PHIL DAVIS  ESTERO, Fla. - An unexpected $10 million congressional earmark might seem like money from heaven for a fast-growing county needing billions for transportation improvements. Not when it comes to Coconut Road.
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ARABI, La. -- Honie Bauer was the first to move back.
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Scott Oliver didn't need government help to rebuild his beachfront property. Using his own money, he built a concrete compound to replace the wood-frame home Hurricane Katrina smashed to bits.
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The homebuilder looks like a good place to park some cash.