Plan calls for &#36;3.5M Katrina memorial
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Tucked inside a $14.4 billion blueprint for the rebuilding of New Orleans is a proposal for a Hurricane Katrina monument on a grand, "Homeric" scale, like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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Los Angeles Times - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. &#8212; More than 30,000 people are expected Thursday when former President Clinton opens his &#36;165-million presidential library, and civic leaders say the campus is already functioning as a catalyst for a renaissance here, helping to spur a building boom.
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A watchdog group says the $14 billion blueprint for rebuilding the city after Hurricane Katrina is a muddled wish-list of projects, and city officials should use the best parts to create a more cohesive, realistic plan.
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A man who owns property at the site where Flight 93 crashed has demanded millions for his portion of land where a memorial is planned, and has installed a donation box to help pay for security.
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A quarrel has been bubbling up over plans for the towering three-story Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington.
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President Bush proposed a &#36;2.57 trillion budget Monday that would erase scores of programs and slice Medicaid, disabled housing and many more but still worsen federal deficits by &#36;42 billion over the next five years.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29 -- President Bush marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by trying to reassure the people of the Gulf Coast that they are not forgotten, declaring that "the town is coming back" at an appearance Wednesday in the devastated Lower Ninth Ward.
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The global Red Cross and Red Crescent  body IFRC on Wednesday launched a world-wide appeal for $3.3  million (2.7 million euros) to fund operations bringing relief  to 40,000 people in hurricane and flood-hit Haiti.
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President Bush plans to ask Congress on Monday to rush more than &#36;2 billion in additional aid to hurricane-battered Florida, administration officials said on Friday.
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The appointment would put the mayor in a position to re-energize the memorial's fund-raising campaign.
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Authorities estimated that more than 2.3 million worshippers had traveled by bus, car, bicycle to participate in the annual observance honoring the nation&#39;s patron saint.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 20--BILOXI -- The Biloxi City Council with a unanimous vote on Monday asked the Mississippi Department of Transportation to designate a portion of U.S. 90 as the Dr. Gilbert R. Mason Sr. MD Memorial Highway.
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(Corrects second paragraph to make clear the &#36;3.5 million is not entirely for the new History Center.)
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By AMY WOLD  When a federal coastal restoration task force meets in January, it will consider spending $34 million to build two restoration projects in the coming year.  A project in Jefferson Parish and one in St.
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Congress will consider a &#36;30 million network of buoys, wave gauges and seismic sensors to warn of tsunamis globally, a plan that would build on U.S. and international efforts to avert another catastrophe.
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The Florida Marlins and two local governments have ironed out the financial details of a $515 million proposal that would give the team a new 37,000-seat ballpark on the site of the Orange Bowl.
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Any memorial to victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing must represent what happened,  relatives say.