New Orleans mayor radiates optimism among the ruins
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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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Fifteen months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his city, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said on Monday he has hired a disaster recovery expert amid widespread criticism that rebuilding has been too slow.
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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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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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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin could be days away from announcing he will run for governor of Louisiana  -  a move many in this stricken city regard as preposterous
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Dancing, drinking revelers crowded  the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday as colorful parades  rolled through the damaged city on the final day of a Mardi  Gras that locals touted as another step in the long recovery  from Hurricane Katrina.
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The glitz and glamor of the Louisiana Superdome's reopening on Monday could be the weekend tourism boost the city has been waiting for since Hurricane Katrina devastated its top industry more than a year ago.
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Since Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans city government has taken steps such as consolidating remote operations into its main data center and adding Web services and GIS technology to help it track reconstruction activities.
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Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco went to New Orleans last August to oversee the opening of the city's first housing-assistance center aimed at people whose homes were destroyed or damaged by Hurricane Katrina. "This is not just a real estate transaction, but an emotional transaction as we...
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Two residents got the keys Thursday to what are believed to be the first homes built in the Lower Ninth Ward since Hurricane Katrina hit 18 months ago, and officials hope the houses &#151; elevated against floodwaters and designed to withstand 160 mph winds &#151; will help spark a revival in the devastated neighborhood.
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Bureaucracy and a lack of money are slowing the rebuilding of New Orleans as the city tries to recover from Hurricane Katrina nearly a year after the storm hit, Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday.
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Newly re-elected Mayor Ray Nagin expressed confidence that political opponents and business leaders would unite to rebuild this hurricane-stricken city.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Where the canal wall burst and doomed the Lower Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina, there now stands an imposing concrete monolith.
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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.
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With the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina behind him and the task of rebuilding New Orleans' shattered economy just beginning, Mayor Ray Nagin will lead a two-day pitch to New York's investment community designed to bring much-needed business to the devastated city.
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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.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin opened a visit to New York on Friday by expressing regret for having criticized the slow redevelopment at the World Trade Center site, saying he will "never again refer to that site as a hole."