New Orleans plan sees 10-year, $14 bln rebuilding
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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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The Congressional Black Caucus has asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to form a new committee on Hurricane Katrina to focus more urgently on rebuilding the Gulf Coast, particularly New Orleans.
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Despite aggressive efforts to repair the New Orleans levee system following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, it isn't clear yet whether it could withstand a sizable hurricane this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday.
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The boom in Gulf of Mexico oil  exploration since the 1970s made New Orleans a hub of the U.S.  energy industry, but the devastation caused by Hurricane  Katrina in 2005 has led some oil companies to move out, a  mini-exodus that could grow.
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By CityBusiness, New Orleans  The $185-million refurbishment of the Superdome will be completed in time for the eagerly anticipated New Orleans Saints home opener in two weeks on Monday Night Football against the rival Atlanta Falcons.
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By David Usborne  After nearly two years of work fixing New Orleans' flood protection network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers has revealed that significant areas of the city remain vulnerable to inundation in the event of another large storm.
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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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A proposal by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to demolish four public housing complexes in New Orleans has touched a raw nerve.
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Two recently announced projects for downtown New Orleans stand out as the first truly creative attempts to foster the cityâs resurrection.
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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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Two years after Hurricane Katrina, much of the "city that care forgot" still lies in ruins. But Otis Biggs' task as he shuffles his Tarot deck this moist August day is to peer into the future to 2015, the storm's 10th anniversary.
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CHALMETTE, Louisiana  - Eileen Schwartz stands on   the sidewalk in front of her one-story house with new, blue   siding, refurbished after the biggest environmental disaster   created by Hurricane Katrina.
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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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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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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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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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Actor Brad Pitt on Thursday   unveiled a "green" housing design for New Orleans's Lower Ninth   Ward and said he was appalled by the slow pace of rebuilding   since Hurricane Katrina hit last year.