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Interview on the “De Laatste Show” – Brussels, Belgium

Check out video link below.

http://www.een.be/programmas/de-laatste-show/ray-nagin

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Superstormen Conference Brussels, Belgium

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 …

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The Sydney Morning Herald

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,” …

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Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater Lecture/Book Signing

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Ray Nagin tells—and publishes—his own story.

A Word from the Mayor
Ray Nagin tells—and publishes—his own story.
By Diane Patrick
Jul 08, 2011

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 …

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Savvy Verse & Wit Interview

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 …

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Book Speculations

Ex-Mayor Nagin paints himself as hero in memoir

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 …

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2011 Essence Festival Book Emporium


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Ebonyjet Online Interview

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 …

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