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February 21, 2008

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February 18, 2008

Pitt’s philanthropy: How a film star is helping to build post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans

February 15, 2008

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Philanthropy helps people re-claim their lives — a concept with which Brad Pitt is intimately familiar. Read more

Hurricane Katrina aid goes toward luxury condos far from the storm zone

February 7, 2008

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama: With large swaths of the Gulf Coast region of the United States still in ruins from Hurricane Katrina, rich federal tax breaks designed to spur rebuilding are flowing hundreds of miles (kilometers) inland to investors who are buying up luxury condominiums. Read more

MDA: Progress being made on post-Katrina housing crisis

February 1, 2008

By MICHAEL NEWSOM
SUN HERALD

JACKSON — Representatives of the Mississippi Development Authority told lawmakers Thursday that despite the bureaucratic federal regulations, the state is poised to make significant progress on the post-Katrina housing crisis soon. Read more