Carnival of Hurricane Relief, #56

This is the 56th Carnival of Hurricane Relief. The first was hosted by Glenn Reynolds at the urging of Hugh Hewitt with the support of N.Z. Bear in direct response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.

Special Note: A Squidoo Lens has been created for CoHR.

A Squidoo Lens is a way to organize online information.

The first payment to a charity
—24¢ to the Grameen Foundation USA —
was paid out last week!

We encourage Gulf Coast charities to register with Squidoo
and let CoHR know so they can get their own 24 cents.

Hosts are needed! Posts are needed! Pictures are needed!
See the CoHR homepage for details. See also N.Z. Bear’s Katrina Relief Community and Web Relief Directory — and the portal, Relief Connections.

Between them, N.Z. Bear and Glenn Reynolds have also launched PorkBusters, to push the effort to fund Katrina’s bill by cutting expenditures in the federal budget. Pull out your pig-stickers and check out N.Z.’s PorkBusters page!

Name/Handle Blog Post Description
Leslie H. Artisan Hurricane Relief Artisan Relief
A new blog: “Relief information for artists on the Gulf Coast affected by hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. Links for showing your art, information on grants, funding, loans, relief efforts.”
  Coyote Blog Broken Window Fallacy, On Steroids
Remember, when reading news articles about the economic recovery of the Gulf Coast, that journalists don’t understand economics…
David Complexcities New Orleans: What’s Happening Now?
“The words most often used to describe the progress of New Orleans seem to be “sporadic” and “uneven”…”
David Ng The World’s Fair Examples of some of the more unusual research on Hurricane Katrina
Lots of research papers and articles based on the effects of last year’s hurricane season — most not on meteorology.
Sabrina I. Pacifici Be Specific DOJ IG Report on Purchase Card Expenditures Related to Hurricane Recovery Efforts
Brief description plus link to pdf version of the report.
  FEMA Hurricane Rita One Year Later
FEMA has the numbers.
Howard Bloom Sports Business News Tom Benson – Will he keep the New Orleans Saints in the City
Something to ponder as the football season unfolds.
rebuildingnola Rebuilding a city Bringing the tourists back
Federal funds to help rebuild the NOLA convention center, the SuperDome, and more.
  Learn & Serve America More Than 500,000 Americans Served in Hurricane Katrina’s Aftermath
And more are needed…
  Katrina Environmental Research & Restoration Network Hurricane Rita research shows progress, obstacles
Two steps forward, one step back…
cehwiedel Kicking Over My Traces NOLA Building Permits
A hint of progress in New Orleans: an uptick in the number of building permits.

For further bloggery, check N.Z. Bear’s ÜberCarnival.

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