NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast seven years ago this week, triggering one of the most devastating chain of events that left New Orleans flooded, hundreds dead, and thousands of residents without a home.
Since then, the city has mostly recovered and tourism is booming.
But the big concern now is whether soon to be Hurricane Isaac will devastate the area once again. Still, …
By ERIK SANDIN – Stillwater Gazette
WHITE BEAR LAKE – Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin wants everyone to know that the city he led through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is back.
“I’m going to tell you about a city that did not give up,” he told an audience Thursday night in Century College’s West Campus …
Former Mayor of New Orleans, entrepreneur and Disaster Recovery Expert.
The progressive policy of Former Mayor Ray Nagin has led to a revival of the city of New Orleans. During his administration the city has an unprecedented economic growth and the city government has grown into a dynamic and competitive organization that work has made such poverty …
The former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has some advice for Australian governments struggling with last summer’s disastrous floods and cyclone: let local people own the recovery.
”I think New Orleans is a key study of a horrific catastrophe and how we struggled to plan and implement to get the city back to recovery,” …
NOLA mayor cautions about hurricane..
Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is the latest prominent figure to choose to self-publish a book. Released on June 22, Nagin’s book, Katrina’s Secrets: Storms After the Storm, covers “the intense crisis …
C. Ray Nagin presided over New Orleans as the mayor in 2008 during one of the most harrowing times of the city’s history. Hurricane Katrina had hit the city in 2005, and much of the media coverage decried the inactivity of the Bush Administration. For Nagin’s part, he did urge residents to prepare for …
By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin writes in a new memoir that he was the only one to understand how to recover from Hurricane Katrina, and that he endured plots against him and incompetence around him as he set his plan in motion.
That and more is in the …
After The Storm: Mayor C. Ray Nagin reflects on Hurricane Katrina in new book
By Tiffany Walden
EBONY catches up with Former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin to talk about his self-published memoir, Katrina’s Secrets.
EBONY: Let’s start with the hard stuff: What would you have done differently in terms of handling the evacuations?
NAGIN: Katrina was very …
