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As our state and our Louisiana neighbors face the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with many thousands of people still living in FEMA trailers, and the possibility of another hurricane looming, the Jackson Free Press pauses to send a prayer to all the victims of a devastating hurricane. Click here to view the JFP's KatrinaBlog, started the day after the hurricane hit the Coast, and archiving Katrina-related stories and posts by JFP writers and readers.
Here's our first press release from FEMA/verbatim
MISSISSIPPI FIRE DEPARTMENTS RECEIVE MORE THAN $137,000 IN FUNDING THROUGH FEMA’S ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT PROGRAM
ATLANTA – Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded $137,588 in Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) to local fire departments and emergency medical services organizations in the state of Mississippi. Nationally, the fiscal year (FY) 2007 AFG awards, which will be distributed in phases, will ultimately provide over $490 million to fire departments and nonaffiliated emergency medical service organizations throughout the country.
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[verbatim statement] (JACKSON, Mississippi) * Governor Haley Barbour announced today he has called a Special Session of the Mississippi Legislature for Thursday to ask legislators to reduce the cost of construction of new homes on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Bill Minor takes Gov. Haley Barbour to task this week over the myth that the Coast is in such better shape a year after Katrina:
Presidential non-candidate Haley Barbour was recently up in Iowa, the presidential testing ground, telling folks down here that we're through the Katrina recovery stage and now working on rebuilding. How's that again? Recovery done? What recovery?
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Read a piece by our new friend, Scott Jordan, of the The Independent Weekly, the Lafayette, La., alternative newspaper and a new member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. And as you read this piece, please recall that this is one of the small, locally owned publications that the Gannett Corp. (owns Clarion-Ledger here) is targeting with its new Goliath distribution scheme. Read about Lafayette's Gannett battle here (and the story talks about our response here in Jackson). So, in effect, in two states where the economy has been so rocked by hurricanes and with people needing their livelihoods, the Gannett Corp.'s response within months is to go after the distribution channels of local businesses and make us pay them for the privilege of putting our papers out. Great timing, Goliath.
Earlier this week, Gov. Barbour announced a special session to allot corporate welfare to a North Mississippi project. After criticism that his call was ignoring dire needs on the Coast, he expanding the call to include issues vital to the Gulf Coast, which is struggling a full year after Katrina. Following is a verbatim statement from the governor:
(JACKSON, Mississippi) – Governor Haley Barbour’s official call for a special session of the Mississippi Legislature seeks state incentives for a huge economic development project in DeSoto County as well as eliminating barriers for construction of new housing and financial assistance for cash-strapped local governments on the Mississippi Coast.
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Don't we know it. AP is reporting:
A Senate inquiry into the government's Hurricane Katrina failures ripped the Bush administration anew Thursday and urged the scrapping of the nation's disaster response agency. But with a new hurricane season just weeks away, senators conceded that few if any of their proposals could become reality in time. The bipartisan investigation into one of the worst natural disasters in the nation's history singled out President Bush and the White House as appearing indifferent to the devastation until two days after the storm hit.
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[Just in from Lott's office/vertim] WASHINGTON - Federal funding totaling more than $11 million is slated for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts in Waveland, Bay St. Louis and includes federal assistance for two Mississippi State Agencies, U.S. Senators Trent Lott and Thad Cochran said today. “Hurricane Katrina impacted virtually every Mississippian in some way,” Senator Lott said. “In addition to hardest-hit communities like Bay St. Louis and Waveland, our state’s vital government agencies are still recovering from Katrina’s wrath as well, and this funding will ensure that important services are fully restored.”
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The Sun-Herald in Biloxi and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, two newspapers that showed amazing courage, and begged the world to pay attention to the immediate effects of Hurricane Katrina, have won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Pulitzer Board announced today. The Times-Picayune also won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution won the Pulitzer for Editorial Cartooning.
See a full list of Pulitzers here.
Columnist Bill Minor rips the Ledge's Sid Salter a well-deserved new one over his playing into the partisan Mississippi-vs.-Louisiana rhetoric. This has been one of the toughest political games to watch since Katrina: one victim state pitted against another one. And it started immediately. (We also like the way Mr. Minor rips "the Chipper" for his FEMA flip-flop. Preach, brother.)
We are now told by a Mississippi journalist that if Louisiana gets the short end of the stick on federal relief funds compared to Mississippi, the Bayou State brought it upon itself by its choices at the ballot box. "Self-inflicted" at the ballot box is what Clarion-Ledger Perspective Editor Sid Salter tells us ("Report on Katrina's aftermath illuminates," Feb. 19 column). Somehow I get the idea that Sid doesn't think Louisiana is Republican enough. Cynical?
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Aug 29, 07 | 5:27 pm
Hurricane Katrina: Two Years Later
L.W.: "pics," not "oics."...
Aug 29, 07 | 5:26 pm
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L.W.: Interesting oics, Lambda.
blu, I think that link deserves its own thread. That's some juicy stuff!...
Aug 29, 07 | 3:08 pm
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blu_n_a_redstate: Bloomberg.com is reporting: MS Gov. Barbour Held Stock in Parent of Lobby Firm
What do you think? Here is the...
Aug 29, 07 | 2:03 pm
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blu_n_a_redstate: Gov. Barbour, friends, and family---WOW!!!
Have you seen this?
If it doesn't open, click below to...
Aug 29, 07 | 12:26 pm
Hurricane Katrina: Two Years Later
LambdaRisen: Saw this today. Amazing.
Before, After and Now pics on MSNBC by local resident...
Aug 29, 07 | 9:01 am
Hurricane Katrina: Two Years Later
ladd: Of special note is this story from October 2004....
Aug 28, 07 | 8:05 pm
Hurricane Katrina: Two Years Later
ladd: Right, L.W., I kinda wish we'd kept up the "triage blog" as we called it. That was amazing; we posted needs and people around the country responded. That's what I spent most of my time doing the first week after Katrina....
Aug 28, 07 | 7:51 pm
Hurricane Katrina: Two Years Later
L.W.: Anyone remember the donations thread? For me, that's my most vivid memory. Everyone needed something, even if it was just ice and gas....
Aug 28, 07 | 7:19 pm
Hurricane Katrina: Two Years Later
L.W.: I hope we don't either....
Aug 28, 07 | 7:13 pm
Hurricane Katrina: Two Years Later
golden eagle '97: I pray that we never have to live through another storm like Katrina again....
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