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"It is has been three weeks since Hurricane Ike blew ashore on Galveston Island bringing up to 20 feet of Gulf waters over the low-lying land, killing a still yet to be determined number of residents — several hundred remain missing — and inflicting billions of dollars in damage. The television satellite trucks and cable news stars are gone and the nation's collective eye has turned elsewhere. But thousands of area residents now live in a stench-filled world where the incongruous is normal and the dangerous real." — from a Time magazine report on life after Ike

E&P: Times-Picayune drops Mississippi deliveries

Source: Editor & Publisher

July 08, 2008

Source: Editor & Publisher

The Times-Picayune has decided it's not worth the trouble to deliver about 3,000 copies of the daily paper to neighboring Mississippi.

"The storm took a lot of the Mississippi distribution away," (Circulation Director Phil Ehrhardt) added, saying rising gas prices were not the chief culprit. "It did not come back on the Gulf Coast and it has been [nearly] three years."

Another sad sign of how the whole Gulf Coast region is suffering.

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