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Opinion: New Orleans Has All the Write Stuff

(Aug. 28) -- When disaster strikes, writers write. That's no secret. But a well-kept secret, at least outside the writing community, is why so many writers continue to be compelled to pen their observations of New Orleans, even five years after that massive disaster labeled Katrina. First, it's important to understand...

Opinion: In Remembering Katrina, Don't Forget Rita

(Aug. 28) -- A few nights ago, courtesy of our local PBS station, I spent three hours reliving the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. My evening began with "Frontline: Law & Disorder," a harrowing look at post-Katrina police corruption in New Orleans. With relief, I moved on to "Still Waiting," a poignant but...

Relief Well Unplugged, BP Readies Final 'Kill' Operation

(July 29) -- With a nearby relief well unplugged after a delay during Tropical Storm Bonnie, BP is preparing two final kill operations to stanch the flow from its damaged Deepwater Horizon oil well from top and bottom, hoping to begin sealing it permanently by early next week. Engineers used underwater robots to remove a...

New Gulf Oil Leak in Pictures

(July 27) -- Just as BP and the country were getting used to the thought of having finally contained the country's worst oil spill (at least temporarily), a boating accident in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday opened a new leak in another company's wellhead, spraying a 100-foot-high plume of natural gas into the air and water...

BP's Hayward to Leave as CEO; Russia Job in Works

LONDON (July 26) -- BP is jettisoning CEO Tony Hayward, whose verbal blunders made the oil giant's image even worse as it struggled to contain the Gulf oil spill, and will assign him to a key job in Russia, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. Hayward is set to step down in October and take a post at TNK-BP, the...