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Thanks, Katrina (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Liz McCartney, dedicated to helping survivors of Hurricane Katrina rebuild their homes, was named 2008 CNN Hero of the Year. Embedded video from CNN Video The St. Bernard Project has rebuilt the homes of more than 120 families for free. St. Bernard Parish was leveled after a 20 foot storm surge roared up the MRGO and flooded and destroyed nearly everything. McCartney, who will...
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Voices of New Orleans (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Liz McCartney, dedicated to helping survivors of Hurricane Katrina rebuild their homes, has been named the 2008 CNN Hero of the Year. McCartney, of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, received the honor at Saturday night's taping of "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The telecast airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Thanksgiving on the global networks of CNN. McCartney,...
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M|O|N|G|K|O|L (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
VIA CNN.com: Liz McCartney, dedicated to helping survivors of Hurricane Katrina rebuild their homes, has been named the 2008 CNN Hero of the Year. McCartney, of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, received the honor at Saturday night’s taping of “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute” at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The telecast airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT [...]
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CNN (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
HOLLYWOOD, California (CNN) -- Liz McCartney, dedicated to helping survivors of Hurricane Katrina rebuild their homes, has been named the 2008 CNN Hero of the Year.Liz McCartney, who is helping residents rebuild their homes after Katrina, is the 2008 CNN Hero of the Year. McCartney, of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, received the honor at Saturday night's taping of "CNN Heroes: An All-Star...
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AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
When Hurricane Katrina smashed into the Gulf Coast in 2005, some 6,000 residents of St. Bernard Parish—a few miles southeast of New Orleans—were stranded, unable to evacuate before the storm hit. But the St. Bernard Fire Department remained on the job. A new book, The St. Bernard Fire Department in Hurricane Katrina , recounts the experiences of St. Bernard Parish...
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Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
A modern Jean-ah Poquelin rises from the marshes of St. Bernard Parish: Representing himself in court filings, Fernandez [landowner] said the levee authority did not have the right to take the land because the MR-GO closure was a navigation issue, not a coastal restoration issue. "By alleging that this is a levee and not a navigation structure, the state will decrease the compensation...
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Law.com - Inside Opinions: Legal Bl (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... Katrina that she left her job as a teacher in Washington, D.C., and moved to Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish, where she opened a nonprofit organization, the , to help rebuild homes by raising money and organizing volunteers. But McCartney was not the only hero behind the St. Bernard Project. She left D.C. and founded the project together with her boyfriend, Zack Rosenburg. A...
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MOLDY CITY (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
St. Bernard Parish doesn't put up with their crap . They don't even try that crap in Jefferson Parish. But Orleans Parish officials praise the home grown crap peddlers. I thought that one of the pleasures of living in the city was that it allows you to act smugly superior to your suburban neighbors. Well, we still have Mandeville Since I'm writing about expensive crap, I'll...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Former DC Lawyer Receives Social Entrepreneurship Award from New York
Think Tank
NEW YORK, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- St. Bernard Project, a
non-profit organization whose mission is rebuilding homes in
Katrina-ravaged St. Bernard Parish, today announced its co-founder, Zack
Rosenburg, was honored with the Manhattan Institute's Social
Entrepreneurship Award.
The award,...
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News from Fire Chief Magazine (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
A new book, The St. Bernard Fire Department in Hurricane Katrina , the experiences of St. Bernard Parish, La., firefighters in the days following Hurricane Katrina.
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Off Plan Property Exchange (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... worth of cabinets removed from walls and carpeting cut from floors of other homes, said the St Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office, Chalmette, Los Angeles.‘Girlfriend has not moved in’Jason Hartwick, 29, of 2401 Despeaux Drive, said he bought the items from other people, police said. Officers added the cabinets were actually removed from a home before being installed in the second property,...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
CHALMETTE, La. A man may have won points with his girlfriend by offering to help renovate her home. Police weren't impressed, however. Authorities say the man stole some of the things he was using in the renovation - including $10,000 worth of cabinets.
The 29-year-old man was booked with possession of stolen property.
The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said he was helping...
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
CHALMETTE, La. - A man may have won points with his girlfriend by offering to help renovate her home. Police weren't impressed, however. Authorities say the man stole some of the things he was using in the renovation — including $10,000 worth of cabinets.The 29-year-old man was booked with possession of stolen property.The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said he was helping renovate...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said he was helping renovate his girlfriend's home with items that had been reported stolen in at least three burglaries. The items included the cabinets removed from the walls of a home in Violet and carpet cut from the floors.
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John McQuaid (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
... Center were easier to reach and tape than the white people stranded on their roofs in St. Bernard Parish–was compounded by media folks patting themselves on the back for their “ballsy’ coverage. I agree. New Orleans’ post-Katrina trajectory could have been a lot different had the media taken a more aggressive role in reporting what actually happened (a civic/government failure to...
