https://newstandardnews.net Nonprofit. Anticommercial. Progressive. Uncompromised. en-us Copyright 2007, The NewStandard pnw-collective@peoplesnetworks.net support@peoplesnetworks.net https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/4261 https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3607 Research and Resources on Hurricane Katrina's Impact https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3606 NewStandard revisited some of the people and organizations whose challenges – and victories – we’ve documented over the past year. Here we present their voices. https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3562 A scathing report by a progressive watchdog organization details the myriad ways big contractors have hogged government funds for profit and defrauded taxpayers in post-Katrina reconstruction. https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3537 During Hurricane Katrina, Benilda Caixeta, a New Orleans resident with quadriplegia, tried for two days to seek refuge at the Superdome. Despite repeated phone calls to authorities, help never... https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3531 Government officials have finally agreed to check for formaldehyde in trailers FEMA provided to survivors of Hurricane Katrina, but only after dozens of residents complained and environmentalists... https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3246 A federal judge has denied a request by lawyers working on behalf of people displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to stop the Federal Emergency Management Agency from cutting off housing aid to... https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3205 People seeking federal housing assistance from FEMA are being pushed into a new, more restricted program, but thousands will be left behind by new rules and red tape. https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3151 Details of horrific conditions endured by boys and girls held in a New Orleans jail during and after Hurricane Katrina are chronicled in a shocking new report by a group that advocates for... https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3148 Among the $14 billion in "extra" budget items the US Senate crammed into its version of a supplemental military and storm-relief funding bill is a relatively small bankroll to fund housing help for... https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3069 Community organizations bussed in voters for early voting in city elections amid lingering concerns that many will be unable to vote due to ballot obstacles. https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2974 What was good enough for mostly well-to-do, pro-Western Iraqi expatriates living in the United States is apparently too good for the mostly black and poor New Orleanians displaced by Hurricane... https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2958 Environmental and civil rights groups petitioned the federal government yesterdayto clean up contamination released when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged insufficiently secured chemical... https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2873 Recent allegations and long-simmering problems have critics of the nation's premier short-term disaster-response agency asking if the American Red Cross deserves the prominence it enjoys. ... https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2868 For local real-estate tycoons who dreamed of wrecking New Orleans housing projects and gentrifying neighborhoods long before the 2005 hurricane season, Katrina’s floodwaters brought a blessing soaked in misery. https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2842 Despite emergency orders and new legislation, elections turmoil in New Orleans is far from over. Two weeks ago, grassroots organizations and community leaders filed a federal lawsuit seeking broad... https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2841 Six months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged one of the Crescent City’s poorest neighborhoods, local leaders appear poised to invoke eminent domain and force one last exodus from the Lower Ninth Ward. https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2833 A highly acclaimed nonprofit hurriedly founded in the days following Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the Gulf Coast has closed its doors on orders from the city government, allegedly to make way for developers. https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2819 For months, reports have alleged that companies rebuilding the Gulf Coast are engaged in contract impropriety while creating dangerous working conditions and paying low – or even no – wages. A... https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2797 Laid bare by disaster's aftermath, the legacy of housing discrimination continues to confront the disproportionately poor and black survivors of last year’s Gulf Coast storms.