Private dollars leading recovery of New Orleans
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With government money for New Orleans trickling through the pipeline, private foundations, wealthy individuals, and philanthropies are playing a larger role than expected.
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New Orleans' mayor signed an order Monday requiring that large businesses use as many local and minority-owned firms as possible when they seek millions of dollars in tax incentives and grants for Hurricane Katrina recovery.
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By AMY WOLD  NEW ORLEANS - A federal coastal-restoration task force is combing the books for money to get more projects built.
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The recovery of New Orleans slowly drags on two years after Hurricane Katrina but one thing back in full swing since the killer storm is crime, particularly murders.
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Before big game, NBA's finest lend a helping hand to parts of city still ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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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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NEW ORLEANS -- Despite slow progress in rebuilding some neighborhoods, New Orleans's population is nearing 300,000, or about 65 percent of its pre-Hurricane Katrina size, a new report says.
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Death rates in New Orleans rose nearly  50 percent as the city began its recovery from Hurricane  Katrina, in part because of storm-related damage to its public  health facilities, researchers said on Thursday.
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Two years ago, the New Orleans team was a symbol of the city's resilience and rebirth.
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The recovery of New Orleans slowly  drags on two years after Hurricane Katrina but one thing back  in full swing since the killer storm is crime, particularly  murders.
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New Orleans' latest plan to recover  from Hurricane Katrina calls for a 10-year rebuilding program  costing $14 billion that will leave some neighborhoods still  sparsely populated.
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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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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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New Orleans plans a new &#36;700  million jazz district and central park, aiming to use the  devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina as an opportunity to  rebuild the damaged core of the city.
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad  - Grenada may need as  much as $2.2 billion, or four times its annual economic output,  to rebuild after Hurricane Ivan slammed the tiny Caribbean  island two weeks ago, an official said on Tuesday.
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Standing in the ruins of the Lower  Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd  a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing  high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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In normal times, redevelopment of public housing to make way for mixed-income neighborhoods might have gone largely unopposed. But passions are high in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, where residents are desperate for cheap housing.