NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she will try to settle a dispute between state and federal authorities over how much the Federal Emergency Management Agency owes Louisiana for Hurricane Katrina damage to CharityHospital. Napolitano will try to settle the dispute by calling officials together in Washington, D.C., to discuss why they remain almost $350 million apart. In its final weeks, the Bush administration made an offer of $150 million, up from the $23 million initial offer by FEMA.——Contact the Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Napolitano to set meeting over Charity Hospital
By The Associated Press
March 8, 2009