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New Orleans and the LRA Lighting The Road To Freedom Data Zone Page 13 Emmanuel Jal: Soldier For Peace “The People’s Paper” October 7, 2006 40th Year Volume 36 www.ladatanews.com The Soul of New Orleans A Long Road Home: New Orleans and the LRA Page 3 Newsmaker Congressional Race Heats Up Amaju Barak to speak Inside Data| at Tulane Page 6 Page 5 4HEULTIMATETRIPFORTHEULTIMATECIRCLEOFFRIENDS Pack your bags and go in style with the Girlfriends L.A. Getaway. Enter for your chance to win a trip to glamorous Los Angeles, California. Plus sensational sights, shopping and spa treatment for you and three of your best girls! come and get your loveSM SM— call anyone on any network for free. Visit alltelcircle.com for details. Alltel Retail Stores These Retail Stores Now Open Sunday. Authorized Agents Equipment & promotional offers at these locations may vary. Covington Kenner Slidell Destrehan LaPlace Nationwide Comm. Marrero Metairie 808 Hwy. 190, Ste. B 1000 W. 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A7167SR.10.5x11.1C.LANO1.indd 1 9/20/06 2:30:19 PM www.ladatanews.com New Orleans Data News Weekly October 7, 2006 Page COVER STORY A Long Road Home By: Edwin Buggage Photos By: Jamie Jones For many New Orleaninas the road home has were damaged by Hurricane’s Kartrina or Rita.” we decided to go back to Congress: the Governor, thus far been a road paved with disappointment, The process of getting the program fully funded the leadership of the LRA and other state officials despair, and delays, as homes stand in once vibrant was an uphill battle as opposed to Mississippi’s to continue to lobby for and addition 4.2 billion neighborhoods are now in a state of disrepair. who was fully funded from the beginning as she dollars and Congress and HUD finally agreed to Wreckage still lies as vestiges of the ruins of an continues to explain, “We lobbied Congress for appropriate the full amount which was approved in American City with an uncertain future. Over one June.” year after the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, I don’t want our community The program has gotten underway amidst New Orleans is staggering back to resituate and criticism from leaders at the state and local levels. revive itself to the immortal, antiquated splendor of relying on trailers the longer One of its most adamant critics is New Orleans days gone by. they stay the harder it will be Mayor C. Ray Nagin, “I think the Road Home Many residents of the Crescent City are still for people to go out and rebuild, Program is going to struggle for a while unless they dealing with many unresolved issues with insurance but if they can’t get money or retool it, it may take years before this money gets companies that are one of the many factors that have their insurance proceeds they’re into the hands of all the people that applies.” The slowed down the process of repopulation. Now the not going to rebuild anyway. mayor may be right in his assessment as evidenced state has stepped in to assist with its creation of the by only 1 cash award being given thus far and 255 Louisiana Recovery Authority Road Home Program. homeowner awards that have been calculated as of It is designed to assist Louisiana residents return the money to fund this program and they initially October , 2006. The Road Home Program so far has home. Louisiana Recovery Authority spokesperson, appropriated 6.2 Billion Dollars back in December, sputtered out of the starting gate. As a lower than Natalie Wyeth spoke with Data News Weekly and while it was a generous amount it wasn’t enough expected number of homeowners has applied thus explaining what the program is and how it came into to fully fund the program and address the needs of far only 33,88 persons have applied across the state existence, “The Road Home Assistance Program is 12,000 homeowners that homes were damaged with 11,685 constituting nearly 5% of the applicants to assist homeowners rebuild or repair homes that or destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.” “So being from the city of New Orleans. Louisiana Road Continued next page. DATA NEWS WEEKLY Mailing Address: PO Box 5033, Atlanta, GA 30302 INSIDE DATA (404) 223-5958 Fax (404) 223-5491 [email protected] Editorial & Business Office: 170 Northside Drive, Suite 506, Atlanta, GA 30313 State & Local News Health News Terry B. Jones Contributors Art Direction CEO/Publisher Harry C. Alford Cover page 6 page 9 & Production Glenn Jones Edwin Buggage Story National News Dollars & Sense VP Advertising James Clingman Paul Mainor for & Marketing Stephen Cooper MainorMedia page 7 page 9 Edwin Buggage Lloyd Dennis page Data Zone Commentary Editor-in-Chief Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Cheryl Mainor Newsmaker Larry Lucas Photographers page 1 page 10 Managing Editor Donald Smith page 5 Jamie Jones Opinion Distribution Photographers page 8 Allison Randolph, III Jamie Jones Noreen Bostick Please call (404) 223-5958 for subscription information. Dated material two weeks in advance. Not responsible for publishing or return of unsolicited manuscripts or photos. Page 4 October 7, 2006 New Orleans Data News Weekly www.ladatanews.com COVER STORY Continued from previous page. Home Program advertisements recent award figures show that Center. “Although I feel we do need have become ubiquitous fixtures the awarded amounts thus far a road home program or some on radio stations where there are considerably lower with the federal, state and local initiative are heavy concentrations of average amount awarded being that works in concert; the amount displaced New Orleanians saying 41,582 dollars. of money is not enough for people that homeowners can receive An amount that falls far short to bring their properties back and up to 150,000 dollars to repair or of what it would take to raise and improve them considering what rebuild their damaged homes repair a home according to Jeffrey is required of the city’s building initially causing some to believe May a housing expert who works codes.” He continues, “Raising the cavalry led by Governor for DB Consulting Group in Silver a home three to five feet may Kathleen Blanco was coming to Springs, Maryland and is the cost somewhere between ten save the day for many frustrated former Executive Director of the and twenty dollars and could go homeowners across the state.
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