» It Could've Been Worse: A lot worse! That's the general feeling of most we spoke with who were in the path of hurricane Gustav as the storm hit the Gulf Coast region. WWL/New Orleans -- which has anchored a 15-station regional storm information network that stretched from the Florida panhandle across Southern Louisiana -- reports that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin hopes to announce procedures for "re-populating" the Big Easy later today. Pre-registered "critical businesses" will be allowed to return to the city first, followed by the general population, something Nagin says he hopes will be able to happen, "by week's end." Power outages in the area are still widespread with over 900,000 businesses and residences reportedly still without electricity as of today. New Orleans' Louis Armstrong Airport, is still on generator power and will not reopen to flights until commercial power is restored.

All Quiet On Canal Street: A post-Gustav shot of Canal Street in downtown New Orleans (l) — courtesy of FM News/Talker WRNO -- shows clearly that the destruction from the city's latest hurricane was nothing like the damage seen in the aftermath of the now infamous hurricane Katrina. However, a significant clean-up project will still be needed as numerous areas of the city and region suffered major flooding as can be seen in the photo on the right showing waters surging over a levee along New Orleans' Industrial Canal.

» Rhode Island Legislator Calls For DePetro's Head: In a letter to the editor of the Providence Journal, state Assemblyman Joseph Almeida (D-Providence) is calling for WPRO/Providence to "take swift and serious action" against station morning host John DePetro in the wake of a recent ratings scandal involving now-discarded tainted diaries that were allegedly returned to Arbitron by DePetro's wife. "Most shocking is DePetro’s position that this deceitful act of altering the ratings was committed by his wife," writes Almeida. "He maintains that he had no knowledge of her covert activity. How can you live in the same household and not be aware of what is going on? If DePetro has one ounce of honesty left, he should pull his wife out from under the bus and take the blame like a man." You can read Almeida's full rant HERE.