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    Broken City
    (2007) Van Lohuizen, Kadir
    Devastated Landscape The Industrial Canal runs past the Lower Ninth Ward. The new flood wall can be seen on the left bank of the canal.
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    Gulf Coast Rising
    (2007) Beamon, Kelly
    It's tough enough to build disaster-relief housing, let alone housing that anyone would want to live in when the crisis has passed.
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    Breaking: New Federal Aid for Historic Preservation
    (2007) Kolleeny, Elizabeth
    New Orleans homeowners who were denied federal grants to restore their historic properties got some good news today: Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitchell Landrieu announced that Congress had approved a second round of funding that will give the residents a chance to share $10 million in preservation aid.
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    Collateral damage
    (2007) Updegrave, Walter
    Katrina also laid waste to the market for homeowners insurance. Here's what you can do about it.
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    When Sweat Equity is the Only Way Home
    (2007) Hughes, Amy R.
    Johnny Moore is on the roof of his flood-wrecked home in New Orleans. But he's not waiting to be rescued. The three-and-a-half feet of water that swamped the modest brick-faced ranch he shared with his wife, Venus, has long since receded. Now, two years after Hurricane Katrina struck and the levees failed, Johnny is saving himself by rebuilding his house the only way he can: with his own hands.
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    Sticking with New Orleans
    (2007) Hyatt, Josh
    A year after the Hazelwoods appeared in the pages of MONEY, the family is giving New Orleans another try.
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    New Orleans: Where's the money?
    (2007) Lashinsky, Adam
    Fortune Magazine -- Ask New Orleanians how their city is faring these days, and their responses follow an eerily consistent arc. They begin with gratitude that you bothered asking and then move on to recitations of all the good that's going on. Hurricane Katrina, and the flood that followed, struck two years ago this month, and since then the tourists have returned, basic services are operating, and the city has crafted a comprehensive recovery plan. Linger a bit on the subject, however, and optimism quickly turns to exasperation. Lack of government leadership, the glacial pace of rebuilding, and outright rage at absent neighbors who've yet to demolish blighted homes top the list of gripes.
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    The next energy crisis
    (2007) Varchaver, Nicholas
    Port Fourchon feels like the edge of the world. As you drive south on Louisiana Highway 1 through Bayou Lafourche, open marshes seem to stretch endlessly until you reach this spot, 60 miles below New Orleans. There, the marsh once known as trembling prairie meets the Gulf of Mexico. This is an oil-services installation. And though its existence is unknown to most Americans, it is vital to them. Without Port Fourchon and its fleet of vessels bringing food, supplies, equipment, and reinforcements to platforms in the gulf, the U.S. would lose access to nearly a fifth of all the oil and gas it uses. Port Fourchon is also home to pipelines, miles and miles of them. There are the feeders from the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, which accommodates the massive tankers that deliver 11 percent of the nation's foreign oil.
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    You can't go home again
    (2007) Harris, Marlys
    Two years have passed since Hurricane Katrina smashed into New Orleans. And if you hang out downtown and don't look too closely, you might think that everything is back to normal. The French Quarter, home to the city's famous jazz clubs and eateries, is thick with tourists, and the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the shelter of last resort for thousands of hot, hungry and hopeless hurricane survivors, again plays host to groups like the American Association of Law Libraries and the International Council of Shopping Centers. But to the east, off Interstate 90, in the city's hardest-hit neighborhoods, the landscape is still post-apocalyptic. On major arteries, practically everything is boarded up: shopping centers, supermarkets, Walgreens, Wendy's, even gas stations.
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    New Orleans: Risky business for insurance
    (2007) Simons, John
    Silver-haired and 62, Jim Donelon has never worked so hard. The New Orleans-born lawyer and politician has suddenly become a traveling salesman of sorts. His pitch: "Come sell insurance in New Orleans." In recent weeks, the Louisiana state insurance commissioner has traveled to Columbia, S.C., to meet the chief executive of Companion Property & Casualty Group, to Seattle to call on the board of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, and to London, where he spoke to insurers at Lloyd's. "When I talk to executives, I share some positives about the business environment. The levees are being rebuilt," Donelon says. "And more importantly, with our Napoleonic Code [which does not impose punitive damages], we are a much less intimidating litigation environment than our neighboring states.