New Orleans Vacation

Durand Beach Won't Open for Holiday 

Durand Eastman Beach will not open this holiday weekend as many had hoped. The city and county have yet to work out the details of an agreement in which the city would take control of the property.
Source: www.rnews.com

Millions Hit the Road for the 4th 
Millions of Americans are leaving their homes to celebrate the 4th of July weekend. AAA says 80 percent of those travelers are headed to their destinations by car. Those headed east from our area planned ahead making sure their routes weren't washed out by this week's floods.
Source: www.rnews.com

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING 
The Columbian, Clark County, Wash., on congressional trips: What if it came to light that five years ago, before 9/11 and before gas was even $2 a gallon, the chairmen of congressional committees that write (or kill) legislation on auto pollution and gasoline mileage had spent a week in Hawaii with their spouses, all expenses paid by manufacturers of SUVs, Humvees and pickups? And what if
Source: www.chieftain.com

Main titles 
The New Orleans Video Access Center is looking to the Internet to provide a worldwide audience for its collection of documentaries about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
Source: www.nola.com

Life in poverty: 'There is no future story'

Grand Island Independent, NE - Jun 24, 2006... People spend time shopping, on vacation, attending children's activities, volunteering, tending ... A lack of communication in New Orleans led to an entire class ...
Source: www.theindependent.com

Government report details fraud in FEMA relief funding
KVBC, NV - Jun 14, 2006... one applicant listed the Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans as his ... fraud and abuse described in a new report by ... used for a week-long Caribbean vacation, a $600 ...
Source: www.kvbc.com

TQ: A Different Approach
BallerStatus.net, CA - Jun 26, 2006... Nobody helped me in the studio, nobody got on stage for me and sang my song while I was on vacation. ... All my family from Alabama, New Orleans and Mississippi. ...
Source: www.ballerstatus.net

Greed drives up Big Easy market

Staunton News Leader, VA - Jun 25, 2006... pre-storm condition � will become, in many cases, a vacation house ... Yes, New Orleans, Biloxi and other coastal cities will be beautiful again � for residents ...
Source: www.newsleader.com

Teens work on New Orleans recovery
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - Jun 24, 2006... "This trip is intended to benefit the people of New Orleans but also to get the kids ... "None of them are under the impression that it's going to be a vacation.". ...
Source: www.dfw.com

FEMA wrong in denying 'Dome reimbursement
The Daily Advertiser, LA - 10 hours ago... for season football tickets, a tropical vacation, a sex-change operation and a divorce. Prison inmates, a supposed victim who used a New Orleans cemetery for a ...
Source: www.theadvertiser.com

Disneyland Park Update
MousePlanet, CA - Jun 18, 2006... It appears that the Disney Vacation Club's new ... Pirates of the Caribbean premiere, several lampposts have been removed from the New Orleans Square waterfront ...
Source: www.mouseplanet.com

Meeting Attempts to Stop Lawsuit 

Minority legislators in Monroe County are making one last attempt to stop the county's controversial sales tax intercept lawsuit from moving forward. Democrats filed a referral with the legislatures president Wednesday requesting an emergency meeting.
Source: www.rnews.com

Gulf students head for home 
Summer vacation may have just started in the Houston Independent School District, but some students are already preparing for the fall semester -- back home in New Orleans.
Source: www.contracostatimes.com

Letters to the Editor - 6/24/2006 
If it isn't bad enough that as a society we have taken to micromanaging one another's waistlines through such finger-wagging shows as "Honey We're Killing the Kids" and a glut of so-called experts jamming-up the 24-7 airwaves with their prescriptions for how we larded-out Americans should reform and repent, now the Food Pyramid-banging has taken this revival-meeting fervor to the comfortable,
Source: www.nctimes.com