Long After Katrina, New Orleans Fights For 'Home'
In just a few weeks, we will mark the seventh anniversary of one of the country's deadliest hurricanes. New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are still recovering from the devastating damage and loss of life...
View ArticlePlaquemine Parish President: Damage Is Just As Bad As Katrina
The eye of Isaac made its first landfall at Plaquemines Parish, a stretch of thin land southeast of New Orleans that extends into the Gulf from Louisiana.According to the parish president, the damage...
View ArticleGrand Jury Indicts Ray Nagin On Corruption Charges
Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has been indicted on 21 counts of bribery and other corruption charges by a federal grand jury. When he became the city's mayor in 2002, Nagin, a former cable TV...
View ArticleWhy Is The Government In The Flood Insurance Business?
There's a quick, one-word explanation for why the federal government started selling flood insurance: Betsy.Hurricane Betsy, which struck the Gulf Coast in 1965, became known as billion-dollar Betsy....
View ArticleCold War Bunker Network Repurposed For 21st Century Threats
There's an underground bunker at a radio station in Charlotte, N.C., where time has stopped. Built decades ago to provide safety and vital communications in the event of a nuclear attack, it's now a...
View ArticlePost-Katrina New Orleans A Story Of Modern Pioneering
It's been eight years to the day since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. To mark the anniversary, NPR revisits neighborhood activist and curator Ronald Lewis, a New Orleans resident...
View Article'Five Days' Of Ambiguous Morality At Katrina-Hit Hospital
If we didn't experience Hurricane Katrina ourselves, we saw it: the ominous red pinwheel on the radar, the wrecked Superdome, the corpses. And certainly we saw our shame — America's inequality,...
View ArticleDuring Katrina, 'Memorial' Doctors Chose Who Lived, Who Died
On Aug. 30, 2005, a doctor climbed the stairs through a New Orleans hospital to the helipad, which was rarely used, and so old and rusted it wasn't even painted with the hospital's current name.From...
View ArticleJudge Orders New Trial In New Orleans Bridge Shooting Case
A federal judge ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans Police Department officers convicted in connection to the shooting deaths of two men on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans.The shootings...
View ArticleCold War Bunker Network Repurposed For 21st Century Threats
There's an underground bunker at a radio station in Charlotte, N.C., where time has stopped. Built decades ago to provide safety and vital communications in the event of a nuclear attack, it's now a...
View ArticlePost-Katrina New Orleans A Story Of Modern Pioneering
It's been eight years to the day since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. To mark the anniversary, NPR revisits neighborhood activist and curator Ronald Lewis, a New Orleans resident...
View Article'Five Days' Of Ambiguous Morality At Katrina-Hit Hospital
If we didn't experience Hurricane Katrina ourselves, we saw it: the ominous red pinwheel on the radar, the wrecked Superdome, the corpses. And certainly we saw our shame — America's inequality,...
View ArticleDuring Katrina, 'Memorial' Doctors Chose Who Lived, Who Died
On Aug. 30, 2005, a doctor climbed the stairs through a New Orleans hospital to the helipad, which was rarely used, and so old and rusted it wasn't even painted with the hospital's current name.From...
View ArticleJudge Orders New Trial In New Orleans Bridge Shooting Case
A federal judge ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans Police Department officers convicted in connection to the shooting deaths of two men on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans.The shootings...
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