http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nagin/ en-us Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:57:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100905/posts NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Rifle Association and the city of New Orleans have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the seizure of firearms by police officers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A court filing Tuesday says the NRA and Second Amendment Foundation will drop the case if the city follows a plan for returning guns to owners who had them confiscated by police after the 2005 hurricane. NOLA.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100905/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:57:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076369/posts Excerpt - Even as residents who fled the city ahead of Hurricane Gustav continued to return, Mayor Ray Nagin said Saturday that it appeared the city would need to start worrying about Hurricane Ike. Hurricane Ike grew to Category 4 strength Saturday and could head into the Gulf of Mexico by early next week, putting residents along the Gulf Coast on alert less than a week after Gustav made landfall in south Louisiana. Nagin told reporters he's worried about fast-moving Ike and about the wherewithal of residents who one week ago began leaving ahead of Gustav. Reactions of residents who've... wwltv.com (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076369/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:17:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2071982/posts GUSTAV MAY MAKE KATRINA A FOND MEMORY Like the poor, hurricanes will always be with us and always have been. They’re not due to the myth of global warming or else how do we explain the Big One of 1938 which still stands as the most merciless storm ever to strike the East Coast? They’re not due to the wrath of God wreaking vengeance on the wicked any more than are droughts, cold waves, heat waves, and floods. They’re due to a capricious Mother Nature who spared us for two years following Katrina and now seems bent on compensating in... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2071982/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:51:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071934/posts Nagin said Sunday that New Orleans will impose a "dusk-to-dawn" curfew and will cease efforts to help people leave the city Sunday afternoon. The city-wide curfew will continue until the threat of the storm passes, Nagin said, warning that looters would be dealt with harshly. "Anybody who's caught looting in the city of New Orleans will go directly to Angola [Louisiana State Penitentiary]. You will not have a temporary stay in the city. You go directly to the big house, in general population," he said. WASHINGTON (CNN) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071934/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:23:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071616/posts NEW ORLEANS -- Residents who try to ride out Hurricane Gustav will be making the biggest mistake of their lives, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warned on Saturday. Nagin Warns Of 'Storm Of Century'! Video "You need to be scared. You need to be concerned. You need to get your butts out of New Orleans. This is the storm of the century," Nagin said. Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for Westbank starting at 8 a.m. Sunday, and mandatory evacuations of the Eastbank will begin at noon. "Riding it out would be the biggest mistake you could make in your life,"... WDSU TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071616/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:44:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071557/posts NEW ORLEANS -- Spooked by predictions that Hurricane Gustav could grow into a Category 5 monster, an estimated 1 million people fled the Gulf Coast Saturday _ even before the official order came for New Orleans residents to get out of the way of a storm taking dead aim at Louisiana. Mayor Ray Nagin gave the mandatory order late Saturday, but all day residents took to buses, trains, planes and cars _ clogging roadways leading away from New Orleans, still reeling three years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city and killed about 1,600 across the region. The... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071557/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:43:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071549/posts NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city beginning 8 a.m. Sunday morning but urged residents to consider escaping "the mother of all storms" before then. New Orleans residents leave Friday via Interstate 10 westbound ahead of Hurricane Gustav. 1 of 3 more photos » "You need to be scared," Nagin said. "You need to be concerned and you need to get your butts moving out of New Orleans right now. This is the storm of the century." CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071549/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:26:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071360/posts BOARDMAN, Ohio — Barack Obama expressed hope Saturday that the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina three years ago would help to protect the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Gustav this time. His running mate, Joe Biden, urged people to pray that the levees in New Orleans hold. Obama and Biden visited a diner in this Youngstown suburb, an area that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton carried during her failed presidential bid. Trying to connect with those who are economically struggling, the Democratic candidates and their wives chatted with diners and told reporters that a properly orchestrated evacuation would be key to protecting... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071360/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:08:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071242/posts U. of C. shunning poor patients? HOSPITAL DISPUTE | Obama's wife, 3 aides tied to plan to free up space BY TIM NOVAK AND CHRIS FUSCO Staff Reporters August 23, 2008http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1122691,CST-NWS-hosp23.article Sen. Barack Obama's wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don't have private insurance -- primarily poor, black people -- to other health care facilities... Obama's top political strategist, David Axelrod, co-owns the firm, ASK Public Strategies, that was hired by the hospital last year to sell the program -- called the Urban Health... Chicago Sun Times, NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071242/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:29:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069534/posts Nagin Returns To New Orleans Due To GustavWritten by: BayouBuzz Staff NEW ORLEANS, LA (August 27, 2008) - New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who was a key speaker this morning for the Oregon, Washington and Minnesota delegations at the Democratic National Convention, has decided to return to New Orleans immediately to closely monitor Hurricane Gustav. Gustav, which has hit the southwest coast of Haiti and is threatening Cuba, appears to be on a likely course toward the U.S. Gulf region. The area, which will mark its third anniversary of the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on August 29,... Bayou Buzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069534/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:55:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066539/posts New Orleans has a far greater proportion of vacant homes than any other city in the country, due in large part to a lagging recovery in about a third of the neighborhoods that were badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, new analyses show. The nonprofit Greater New Orleans Community Data Center released two reports Thursday, one of which used U.S. Postal Service data compiled in March to compare New Orleans with seven other American cities that have large inventories of blighted or vacant housing. When it comes to abandoned homes, New Orleans is in a class by itself, the report indicated,... The Times Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066539/posts#comment Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:18:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060307/posts Federal investigators this morning began examining documents in the Poydras Street offices of the shuttered New Orleans Affordable Homeownership Corporation, a nonprofit supervised and financed by Mayor Ray Nagin's administration that ran a home remediation program in 2006 and 2007. Officials arriving just before 10 a.m. at NOAH offices near City Hall, on the 10th floor of an office building at 1340 Poydras Street, declined to speak in detail to a reporter, as one of them said simply that "we're guests" at the offices. But they appeared to be carrying out a subpoena issued last week as part of a... The Times Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060307/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:11:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058320/posts Mayor Ray Nagin told the City Council this morning that the city has found 90 properties where storm remediation work that was supposed to be conducted by taxpayer-financed contractors was not done. Nagin said his staff visited all 870 properties enrolled in a now-defunct home remediation program run by the nonprofit New Orleans Affordable Homeownership Corp. Of the 90 properties where "discrepancies" were found, contractors involved with the program billed the city for work on 46. The city has notified those contractors of the problems and asked for reimbursement or documentation of work, Nagin said. While Nagin acknowledged that his... The Times Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058320/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:51:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049887/posts After an investigation by Eyewitness News on New Orleans Affordable Homeownership program -- NOAH -- Mayor Nagin held a press conference in response, calling the story “biased and inaccurate” and saying that the story is hurting the recovery effort. On Tuesday, one by one, the Nagin administration discounted a 4 Investigates report from the previous night that highlighted properties NOAH had claimed to remediate more than a year after Hurricane Katrina. The investigation which aired Monday evening used three separate sets of documents obtained in records requests from NOAH that showed properties that didn't appear to qualify for the program.... wwltv.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049887/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:38:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016334/posts Mayor Ray Nagin's top aides have charged more than $150,000 to a taxpayer-financed city credit card account over six months, from September to February, most of it on travel, hotels and meals in some of the city's finest eateries. Among the more eye-popping tabs were $3,897 at Morton's Steakhouse in January and $2,800 at the Ray's Over the River nightclub, the most recent city records available show. Both charges were at events intended to foster better relations among the Orleans Parish legislative delegation, the City Council and the Nagin administration, said city communications director Ceeon Quiett, who signed for both... The Times-Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016334/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 14:56:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016259/posts NEW ORLEANS — Josue Vega was one of thousands of immigrant workers who flocked to New Orleans in 2005 in hopes of finding a rebuilding job in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He worked seven days a week and earned more than twice his normal earnings. But with work now down to three days a week, the 20-year-old is planning to go home to Honduras. "My goal is to be here until November, and then never come back," he said. "I've had enough." The stops and starts of the post-Katrina rebuilding effort, often due to bureaucratic delays in funding, still... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016259/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 12:26:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015400/posts WASHINGTON - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin endorsed Barack Obama for president today, giving the Illinois Democrat another superdelegate in his battle for the Democratic nomination. "Since the immediate days following the storm, I have been traveling to our nation's capitol to advocate for policies that aid our rebuilding effort," Nagin said in a statement released by the Obama campaign. "I know first hand, we desperately need the leadership of someone committed to changing the system in Washington that can hold us back from moving forward." Obama said he shares Nagin's commitment to "renewing the great city of New Orleans."... NOLA.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015400/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 19:12:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012993/posts In a statement released early this morning, presumptive Democratic Party nominee Senator Barack Obama, (D-Ill) speculated Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans would be a "Spectacular" choice for FEMA director. Said a spokesperson, "In light of the hurricane disasters caused by global warming and the Bush administrations inability to cope with the devastating effects, we feel in a Democratic Party regime Mayor Ray Nagin would be a spectacular choice to head the federal emergency team. His prolific actions during the evacuation of New Orleans during the Katrina catastrophe saved thousands of lives and serves as a model for the rest... LiberalLunacy.bravehost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012993/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 13:44:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010974/posts Nagin Picked As Superdelegate Hasn't said if he will support Obama or Clinton Saturday, May 3, 2008 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been elected a superdelegate to the Democratic Party's presidential nominating convention. The state party's central committee picked Nagin over four other candidates, including Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu, who unsuccessfully challenged Nagin for mayor in 2006. Nagin won 83 votes in voting Saturday, Jerry McKernan of Baton Rouge had 50 and Landrieu had 28. Nagin is one of 11 Louisiana superdelegates who will go to the convention and do not need to pledge their support to a candidate... 99.5 fm WRNO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010974/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 10:39:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982210/posts Ray Nagin welcomes "V-Day" Founder, Eve Ensler to cityNew Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says he is "a vagina-friendly Mayor." Nagin made the remark while welcoming the author of the Vagina Monlogues, Eve Ensler to the city to promote the "V-Day" celebration in New Orleans next month. Scheduled to appear during 2 days of educational, cultural and entertainment events at the New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome, are Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, Salma Hayek, Sally Field, Christina Lahti and Faith Hill. Ensler says they will celebrate V-Day's 10 years of ending violence in the world. Mayor Nagin began his... 99.5fm.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982210/posts#comment Fri, 7 Mar 2008 23:42:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982383/posts Ray Nagin welcomes "V-Day" Founder, Eve Ensler to city Friday, March 7, 2008 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says he is "a vagina-friendly Mayor." Nagin made the remark while welcoming the author of the Vagina Monlogues, Eve Ensler to the city to promote the "V-Day" celebration in New Orleans next month.Scheduled to appear during 2 days of educational, cultural and entertainment events at the New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome, are Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, Salma Hayek, Sally Field, Christina Lahti and Faith Hill. Ensler says they will celebrate V-Day's 10 years of ending violence in the world.... 99.5 fm.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982383/posts#comment Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:12:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974112/posts Nagin is upset, again wwltv http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974112/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:40:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970285/posts Remember when the residents of New Orleans had their guns unlawfully taken from them following Hurricane Katrina? Here’s a picture of the Mayor of New Orleans, the Willie Wonka of Louisiana himself, Ray Nagin. Get creative and caption the photo. All American Blogger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970285/posts#comment Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:58:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969687/posts New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley on Tuesday used the floor of the Superdome to display more than $1 million in new armament and other equipment, largely for use by the SWAT squad in emergency and riot situations, including a fully equipped mobile command post, two armored cars and modern assault rifles. The Times-Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969687/posts#comment Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:02:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931189/posts New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin recently pronounced himself "disgusted" with apathy among city residents, saying it was "unacceptable" that only about a quarter of registered voters bothered to cast a ballot in the Oct. 20 primary. Turns out the mayor himself has skipped a few elections, according to state records. Nagin did not vote in the October primary, or in two citywide elections in March and May, according to Secretary of State Jay Dardenne's office. Turnout in the Oct. 20 primary -- when Nagin could have had a say in electing key officials he would work with, including the governor,... The Times Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931189/posts#comment Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:25:14 GMT