You asked Peter Henderson, reporting from New Orleans for Reuters, how the debris clean-up is going in the city and along the coast. “There are still massive debris piles and twisted houses all over the worst hit areas, including Lakeview and the Lower Ninth Ward,” Henderson writes back. Mayor Ray Nagin on Sunday told Lower [...]
There’s plenty of frustration to go around at the slow pace of rebuilding, Peter Henderson has discovered. He’s reporting for Reuters from the city, interviewing people like Sigma Frazier. The 76-year-old is convinced neither the city nor the federal government has been helping enough. (Read more here).
He’s also met some newcomers, like Guatemalan Antonio Santos, 31, who moved from Houston since [...]
Gene and Laura Hindeland bought a house down the street from one of the canal breaches which flooded the city. The dirty line above their heads was left by the Katrina floodwaters. The Hindelands explain their decision to move to New Orleans below.
Gene and Laura Hindeland moved from Houston seeking adventure and a chance to help New Orleans rebuild. View the street and house they bought in the city earlier this year below and read more on risk-takers like the Hindelands here. Some are looking to do well, others want to do good, and many want both.
Airline stocks stumbled after British police said they foiled a bomb plot on jetliners. Investors fear people are going to travel less. Cancelled flights and images of travelers pouring the contents of their carry-on luggage into clear plastic bags in U.S. and British airports may discourage even more flying.
Some analysts expect an overreaction is taking place. Are they right or are [...]
(Editor’s note: Reuters.com asked Gary Hershorn, News Pictures Editor for North America, to discuss some of the tools photojournalists have used in the past — and what they use now — to produce pictures. On Monday, Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database after a review showed he had altered two [...]
