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The Long Journey of the Katrina Trailers

By | 09.02.10 | 6:00 am

This week, The Washington Independent is featuring a series of investigative stories on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Find all of them here.

A few weeks ago, in Henry County, Ga., a woman named Angela Wilson led a local television anchor into her camping More…

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Workers Rebuilding New Orleans Face Rampant Wage Theft

By | 09.01.10 | 4:30 am

This week, The Washington Independent is featuring a series of investigative stories on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Find all of them here.

Jacinta Gonzalez, an organizer with the Congress of Day Laborers in New Orleans, tells a story about the abuse of workers More…

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Who Gets to Rebuild New Orleans?

By | 08.31.10 | 4:30 am

This week, The Washington Independent is featuring a series of investigative stories on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Find all of them here.

Two weeks before the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans’ mayor, Mitch Landrieu (D), just three months into his tenure, More…

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A Flood of Money Slow to Fix New Orleans Schools

By | 08.30.10 | 3:40 pm

This week, The Washington Independent is featuring a series of investigative stories on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Find all of them here.

After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the federal government began the most expensive long-term rebuilding project in American history. The More…

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New Orleans Landfills, Prone to Flooding, Remain Controversial – and Possibly Dangerous – for City Residents

By | 08.30.10 | 9:02 am

This week, The Washington Independent is featuring a series of investigative stories on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Find all of them here.

In the late summer of 1965 — almost 40 years to the day before Hurricane Katrina — Betsy, a Category Four More…