Voters Oust Indicted Congressman in Louisiana
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- Voters Oust Indicted Congressman in Louisiana
- Hurricane faithful start strong
- Stability fades away for children of Hurricane Katrina
- Hard times in hurricane-hit Voodoo realm
Voters Oust Indicted Congressman in Louisiana
New York Times United States
In heavily white precincts turnout was about 26 percent while it was only about 12 percent in the heavily black precincts said Greg Rigamer a New Orleans demographer and analyst. The exact percentage of blacks here like the population itself is unknown after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 but is thought to be 55 percent to 60 percent down from around 70 percent before the storm. The City Council has turned majority-white after years of being led by blacks. “It’s clearly shifted” Mr. Rigamer said of the population. “You have fewer African-Americans in the city than previously.
Hurricane faithful start strong
Tulsa World OK
kickoff the 25-year-old TU graduate could be found stirring scrambled eggs and preparing sausage. Tailgating fans were as likely to be enjoying Red Bulls and coffee as any stronger beverage as they filed into the stadium. The loss spoiled TU’s plan to return to the Liberty Bowl in Memphis where the Golden Hurricane defeated Fresno State in December 2005. Before the game Cynthia Hess of Tulsa had already mappedCM8ShowAd(“336×280″); her holiday vacation around an expected appearance by TU in the Jan. Hess had planned to supplement a trip to Nashville with her father with a stop in Memphis for the football game. Now those Memphis plans are all gone unless they want to stop by to check out Graceland and Beale Street.
Stability fades away for children of Hurricane Katrina
Houston Chronicle United States
NEW YORK TIMES BATON ROUGE LA. — Last January at the age of 15 Jermaine Howard stopped going to school. Attendance seemed pointless: Jermaine living with his father and brother in the evacuee trailer park known as Renaissance Village since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 had not managed to earn a single credit in more than two years. Not that anyone took much notice. After Jermaine flunked out of seventh grade the East Baton Rouge School District allowed him to skip eighth grade altogether and begin high school. After three semesters of erratic attendance he left Baton Rouge in early spring of this year and moved in with another family in a suburb of New Orleans where he found a job at a Dairy Queen. A shy artistic boy with a hint of mustache Jermaine is one of tens of thousands of youngsters who lost not just all of their belongings to Hurricane Katrina but a chunk of childhood itself.
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Hard times in hurricane-hit Voodoo realm
San Francisco Chronicle USA
tmpl –>(12-07) 04:00 PST Miami –Goat meat stewing on the stove and sweet potatoes baking in the oven. Cooked fish complete with bones and eyeballs. Spicy peppers soaked in bottles of rum.