SIUC students visit devastated New Orleans six- to seven-word headline
SIUC architecture and education staff from Southern Illinois University Carbondale travel to New Orleans to survey the Lower Ninth Ward, a district reduced from about 20,000 residents to roughly 3,000, with overgrown lots and ruined streets. The trip links to a class project and features perspectives from two professors with ties to the city.
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Bounce Back: New Orleans Rebuilds Post Katrina Signs
Two years after Katrina residents see a city reviving as banners proclaim Renew Rebuild Rebirth near the tourist zones while Ninth Ward wreckage bears spray painted notes of death and abandonment. X marks on houses signaled corps surveys with codes noted by observers from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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Wonderful weather and wine at eighth annual festival ends today
The eighth annual Art and Wine festival at the Southern Illinois Art and Artisans Center closes today from noon to 6 pm. Salem visitors Mark and Beverly Sheppard enjoyed wine tasting, live music, and handmade beverage holders as Steve Nelson carved a hedgeapple wood piece. Mary Lou Galloway praised the large turnout after two rainy years.
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Lawmakers return to grueling gridlock this week
Springfield notes the fall veto session resumes as Democrats feud over the unfinished spring agenda. Gov Blagojevich vetoed 463 million from a 59 billion budget prompting 19 regional hearings defending the cuts and two lawsuits against House Speaker Michael Madigan over procedural matters.
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