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Houston evacuees balking at plans to move to cruise ships
Today's relocation of about 4,000 evacuees from the Astrodome and Houston's other giant shelters to two Galveston-based cruise ships has been delayed because shelter residents don't want to go

FEMA director targeted by response critics
Michael D. Brown has been called the accidental director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, caricatured as the failed head of an Arabian horse sporting group who was plucked from obscurity to become President Bush's point man for the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

FEMA website bio of Michael Brown

Ten-Foot Poll on FEMA Director---RESULT

posted 940a-12p Tue 9/6/2005 Is current FEMA head Michael Brown the person you want in charge of recovery from the NEXT big disaster? Yes 446- 51% No 436- 49% Total votes 882-

OPINION
It's your fault too, Mr. Bush
"An administration that tells us a terrorist strike is inevitable should have had in place a plan for evacuating a major American city."

Two New Orleans levees closed
Residents of this suburb were allowed to return home briefly to gather possessions as floodwaters started to recede yesterday, and New Orleans' mayor struck a note of optimism as engineers repaired the city's levees.

Red tape keeping Samaritans from New Orleans

Where is Snowball? Did he make it?
at the Superdome after the hurricane, when [the boy] went to board a bus to be evacuated to Houston, a police officer took the dog away. The boy cried out -- "Snowball! Snowball!" -- then vomited in distress. Authorities say they don't know where the boy or his family ended up.

Barbara Bush: Astrodome working well for underprivileged
"What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas."

Duke students got to New Orleans when FEMA couldn't 9-4
".. posed as journalists to slip inside the hurricane-soaked city twice, and evacuated seven people who weren't receiving help from authorities."

Danger for press photographers in Louisiana 9-2
"..photojournalist Lucas Oleniuk of the Toronto Star was knocked to the ground by police, his gear taken from him initially, when he photographed them shooting at looters and then beating one."

Helpful oddball battles Paypal over Katrina fund freeze

Ten-Foot Poll on Katrina Response---RESULT

posted 10a-1140p Mon 9/5/2005 Now that a week has gone by and I've had time to think about it I am less critical of the government's Katrina response 125- 25% } 61% I wasn't critical in the first place and that's how I still feel 177- 36% I am more critical of the government's response 58- 12% } 40% I was very critical then and still am now 137- 28% Total votes 497-

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Herald-Zeitung
Strong Labor Day weekend on Guadalupe River

Toyota computer makes you watch the road
Safety mechanism detects when driver stops looking straight ahead

Desperate Housewives raking in the ad bucks

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