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State officials have called the duplication of benefits penalty one of the biggest hurdles to recovery from the 2016 floods. Thousands of Louisiana…
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Two years ago, tens of thousands of homes in southeast Louisiana were flooded by historic rainfall. Recovery continues, but fewer homeowners than…
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Louisiana’s Congressional delegation is working to reform laws to help victims recover from natural disasters. Representative Garret Graves has a bill…
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Pat Forbes, Louisiana Office of Community Development Director, updated the Legislature’s Homeland Security Committee yesterday on recovery from the 2016…
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Congress has voted to give victims of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria some tax relief as they recover from the disastrous storms. But taxpayers in…
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Around the country, hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to buy back individual homes from people who have flooded repeatedly. But buying out...
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Dietmar Rietschier is executive director of the Amite River Basin District. He talks about the historic flood of 2016.-
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It began one year ago tonight.“I don’t ever remember going an entire day where it didn’t at least stop raining for a little while,” state climatologist…
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“The National Flood Insurance Program is vital to Louisiana’s economy. It expires September 30th. We need to renew it.”Louisiana's U.S. Senator John…
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Just one week after school started last year, doors were closed as historic flooding damaged campuses across Livingston Parish. But when schools opened…