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INTERNET DIRECTORY Arts Business Computers Games Health Home News Recreation Reference Regional Science Shopping Society Sports World WHAT'S ON TV TONIGHT? > Basic Subscribers STOCK QUOTES Ticker   Name Company Data QuickQuote	General Announcement: Trust Cable is pleased to announce that coming very soon, we will be adding the preview guide to our line-up. It will be on channel 4. The preview guide channel will show all the cahnnels and what is coming on each channel from the current time, to 2 hours ahead. It is constantly updated. Local News Bob Kerrey's Unusual Corporate Connections - Tenet Healthcare LOUISIANA STATE NEWS Ex-Nebraska Governor and Senator Bob Kerrey, the highly respected 9-11 Commission co-chair, surfaced not long ago as a corporate board member for Tenet Healthcare, Genworth Financial, Jones Apparel and Scientific Games Corporation. Conde Nast Portfolio mentioned Mr. Kerrey in a story on Pete G. Peterson of the Blackstone Group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Under the theme of government deficit reduction as the economy implodes, the story stated: Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska senator and a close friend of Peterson's, puts it this way: "It's like coming up with a really good welfare-reform plan for New Orleans, and then Katrina hits." Bob was in a position of responsibility when Katrina struck. Tenet Healthcare owned Memorial Hospital, the facility with 34 total patient deaths. Twenty four deaths came from LifeCare Hospital's long term acute care unit. LifeCare rented a floor from Memorial. Unfortunately, the White House did not perform a really good investigation of Katrina. Frances Townsend's Lessons Learned report made no mention of Tenet's Memorial Hospital. It also omitted LifeCare, the hospital with the highest death toll in the storm. Still no 'Louisiana cottages' built, despite deadline LOUISIANA STATE NEWS Almost two years after the federal government promised Louisiana $74.5 million to build alternative post-disaster housing units, not a single one has been built. And now two deadlines are approaching, one that could force the state to seek extensions or risk losing unspent money. The Federal Emergency Management Agency official who oversees the four-state Alternative Housing Pilot Program insists that he has no worries about whether Louisiana can meet a key September 2009 deadline to build "Louisiana Cottages" with its share of the $400 million program. "They are on time to meet the implementation schedule," said Randy Kinder, the Washington, D.C.-based program manager for a project that in Louisiana has spanned almost two years, two governors and a change in the state agency with oversight responsibility. Another deadline, carrying less potential fallout if it is not met, is even closer. The state pledged to "use its best effort" to tell the contractor by the end of the year where the state wants all of the homes built. Failing to meet that commitment carries no specific penalty for the state. But missing either deadline would be an embarrassment for Louisiana, which complained loudly in December 2006 when the Bush administration allocated the money for the housing program, which was designed to demonstrate alternatives to FEMA trailers for future disasters. Mississippi was awarded $280 million -- more than triple Louisiana's take, even though Louisiana suffered more extensive property damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. FEMA said from the beginning that the allocation was not based on need but on an evaluation of the proposals for future disaster housing units. Since then, Mississippi has completed the initial phases of its program, putting occupants in 2,818 units, near its initial goal of 3,000. Ask AP: `Dead zones,' Secret Service protection LOUISIANA STATE NEWS It turns out there may be an upside to a busy Gulf of Mexico hurricane season _ if you happen to be a shrimp or a clam.The silver lining on the storm clouds has to do with the effect of tumultuous tropical weather on the Gulf's oxygen-depleted 'dead zone' _ a subject that inspired one of three questions in this edition of 'Ask AP,' a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers' questions about the news.If you have your own news-related question that you'd like to see answered by an AP reporter or editor, send it to newsquestions@ap.org, with 'Ask AP' in the subject line. And please include your full name and hometown so they can be published with your question. Study: Many kids in Katrina trailer park anemic LOUISIANA STATE NEWS Dozens of infants and toddlers who lived in Louisiana's biggest trailer park for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina were anemic because of poor diets, at a rate more than four times the national average. International News In Wake of Attacks, India-Pakistan Tensions Grow NEW YORK TIMES Indian officials said that Pakistanis were responsible and must be punished for last week?s terrorist attacks. Analysts Say It Will Be Difficult to Shield Luxury Hotels From Terrorist Attacks NEW YORK TIMES Experts say little can be done to stop trained gunmen from attacking hotels, the new magnets for terrorists. Chabad Movement Vows to Continue Work of Couple Killed in Attack NEW YORK TIMES Young couples from around the world have stepped forward, offering to move to Mumbai and run Chabad Houses, after two emissaries were killed.

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