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On Fifth Anniversary of Katrina, Signs of Healing in New Orleans

August 28, 2010 By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON NEW ORLEANS -- This city, not that long ago, appeared to be lost. Only five years have passed since corpses were floating through the streets, since hundreds of thousands of survivors sat in hotel rooms and shelters and the homes of relatives, learning from news footage that they were among the ranks of the homeless. For most of the last year, in... Full article »

A Mayor With a Full Plate

July 14, 2010 By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON NEW ORLEANS -- The Risky Business and the Mañana, two shrimp boats with names that sum up much about life in this city, were on the lookout for oil in the waters leading into Lake Pontchartrain. Watching them last Friday aboard the Power Nap, another shrimp boat involved in the response, was a group of BP and Coast Guard officials, unemployed... Full article »

EDITORIAL; A New Chance in New Orleans

May 19, 2010 The Justice Department described the New Orleans Police Department earlier this year as one of the nation's worst. There is no doubt about that. The city suffers from one of the country's highest rates of violent crime and unsolved murders. Its police force is currently the subject of at least eight federal investigations into accusations of... Full article »

Justice Department to Review New Orleans's Troubled Police Force

May 18, 2010 By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON NEW ORLEANS -- Officials from the Justice Department announced a widespread review of this city's troubled police department on Monday, the necessary first step in a full-scale overhaul. Standing at a news conference alongside the mayor, the police chief and other federal and local officials, Thomas E. Perez, the assistant attorney general for the... Full article »

New Orleans Picks Mayor With Show Of Support

February 8, 2010 By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON At forums during the mayoral campaign here, candidates were frequently asked what they would do about the racial divide in the city, the dysfunctional stalemate that has often bogged down the city's recovery from Hurricane Katrina. All said they would try to overcome that stalemate. But only one could cite a family legacy of having done so, the one... Full article »

Weary New Orleans Elects White Mayor

February 7, 2010 By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON Riding a wave of discontent with political corruption, high crime rates and the slow pace of the city's recovery, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu was elected mayor of this city by a landslide on Saturday, the first white man to hold the position since his father, Moon Landrieu, left office in 1978. Mr. Landrieu won with 66 percent of the vote. His closest... Full article »

Another Contest for New Orleans This Weekend

February 5, 2010 By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON Politics may not be the main topic of conversation in this football-addled town right now, but there is a mayoral election on Saturday, the day before the Super Bowl, and its outcome could be historic. The results of Saturday's mayoral primary, four-and-a-half years after Hurricane Katrina violently jarred New Orleans from its trajectory, will say... Full article »

Black Candidate's Decision Transforms New Orleans Race

January 13, 2010 By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON Less than a month before the primary, the race for mayor here is a struggle over who will bring down the soaring murder rate, who will attract badly needed new businesses and who will guide the city in its still dauntingly long road to recovery. But it is also about something else. ''It's always about race,'' said Lambert C. Boissiere Jr., a former... Full article »

Descending To New Depths

January 15, 2007 By BOB HERBERT I was surprised recently by a sudden shift in the tone of a veteran cabdriver, Stanley Taylor, who had been kind enough to take me on a nearly four-hour tour of the flood-wrecked regions of the city. For most of the afternoon, Mr. Taylor had been wonderfully informative and polite, and his comments had been filled with sympathy for those who had... Full article »

Despite Woes of New Orleans, An Incumbent Proves Resilient

May 22, 2006 By SHAILA DEWAN The extraordinary circumstances stacked against Mayor C. Ray Nagin by Hurricane Katrina -- a displaced electorate, an emptied city treasury, a punishing leadership test -- could not finally trump a constant force of New Orleans politics, the power of incumbency. By a margin of four percentage points, voters re-elected Mr. Nagin on Saturday to guide... Full article »

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