In the litigious aftermath of the Catholic Church’s sex-abuse scandal, New Orleans Archbishop Alfred Hughes testified in a deposition that “we bishops have pledged ourselves to conduct business in the open as much as possible. That pledge has changed the way we operate and are now opera
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Two New Orleans City Council members said Wednesday that they want to work with the state and federal governments to find ways to alleviate the economic distress that hurricane evacuations cause many people and small businesses.
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Learning lessons from Katrina, local neighborhood associations helped lead evacuation as well as recovery efforts during Gustav.
On Friday, Aug. 29, the Lower Ninth Ward needed to remember its dead — and protect its living. Patricia Jones, executive director of the Lower Ninth Ward’s Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association (NENA), joined other Ninth Ward community leaders the night before to decide how best to honor those who died three years ago because of the levee failures. Equally important, they had to figure out how to evacuate hundreds of Lower Ninth Ward residents in the face of Hurricane Gustav, which was rapidly…
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