Real Estate News - Blanco’s Housing Plan Cross First Legislative Hurdle
Blanco’s Housing Plan Cross First Legislative Hurdle
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s $7.5 billion program for people with hurricane-damaged houses is moving through the Legislature. The plan won approval from a House committee and provides rebuilding and buyout money for storm victims.
Abbotsford houses approval
Planners recommend approval of 79 houses opposite the historic home of Sir Walter Scott.
With city far from whole, FEMA closes long-term recovery office
NEW ORLEANS - The Federal Emergency Management Agency office charged with helping New Orleans devise a blueprint to rebuild destroyed houses, schools and neighborhoods after Hurricane Katrina is being closed and nearly all its workers reassigned.
Springsteen delivers emotional set at Jazz Fest
The first weekend of the 37th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ended with a slow, elegiac version of the Crescent City standard “When the Saints Go Marching In,” just the kind of thing you’d expect at the first Jazz Fest since Hurricane Katrina.
Porno shoot lays an egg on Easter Sunday
LOS ANGELES — On Easter Sunday, inside the million-dollar houses on a quiet cul-de-sac in Encino, the neighborhood kids delighted in what the Easter Bunny had brought.