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New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin believes that that the slow recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is part of a plan to disperse black voters geographically to make it more difficult for blacks to be elected to political office."Ladies and gentlemen, what happened in New Orleans could happen anywhere. They are studying this model of natural disasters, dispersing the community and changing the electoral process in that community," Nagin said in a speech to the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a trade group for newspapers serving the black community.The Washington Post reports that Nagin, who won reelection...

After Welcoming Evacuees, Houston Handles Spike in Crime Population Swell Fills Apartments and Strains Police Force By Sylvia Moreno Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 6, 2006; Page A03 HOUSTON -- The southwest corner of this city is one sprawling low-rise apartment complex after the next, a once-hot real estate area that died with the 1980s oil bust only to be reborn in the '90s as a low-income, high-crime neighborhood. Now it's Katrina turf. New Tony's Express, a neighborhood convenience store, is sold out of T-shirts and caps stenciled with the numbers 504, 985 and 337 -- the area codes...

AUSTIN (AP) - Weeks after demanding the information, state officials have received the names of registered Louisiana sex offenders who sought federal disaster assistance in Texas after Hurricane Katrina. Texas has been seeking the names so it can give them to law enforcement agencies around the state. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security provided the computerized list Monday to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Using its own resources, the state determined there were at least 140 of the evacuee sex offenders in Texas, but officials expect there are more. It will take several days to run the names provided...