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, …
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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,” …
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By Nedra Rhone
Via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
C. Ray Nagin, former mayor of New Orleans, left office in May 2010 several years after rising to international notoriety for what is now known only as “Katrina.” Last month, Nagin released a self-published memoir of the days before and 30 days after the historic event.
“I really couldn’t do anything before I got out of office,” said Nagin, who …
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 …