1.0 link 122453 <![CDATA[Three Years after Katrina: Building on Community Successes in the Gulf Coast]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-buchanan/three-years-after-katrina_b_122453.html Almost three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the breakdown of Louisiana's federally constructed levee system, the media, Congress, the White House, our Presidential candidates and even, surprisingly, the progressive community have for the most part moved on.


Fewer and fewer national media organizations regularly cover the region's recovery and wall-to-wall coverage of the DNC and RNC Conventions has kept media interest in the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to a bare minimum.


Though Congress passed appropriations this...

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