These are quotes from W’s speech in New Orleans
on the second anniversary of Katrina.
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“In other words, the taxpayers and people from all around the country have got to understand the people of this part of the world really do appreciate the fact that the American citizens are supportive of the recovery effort.
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And so I […]
Michael Brown: ‘Life after government’
Michael Brown, then director of FEMA, with Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, an agency which Brown had earlier that year accused of an “unfocused empire-building’’ agenda.
Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images.
by Mark Silva
Michael Brown, the former federal official who bore the brunt of criticism for the government’s handling […]
27 Jul 2007 // Washington, DC – Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released the most comprehensive matrix available to date detailing all offers of assistance from around the world in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
CREW’s matrix is based on 25,000 Department of State (DOS) documents it received as a […]
FEMA Knew Of Toxic Gas In Trailers
Hurricane Victims Reported Illnesses
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 20, 2007; Page A01
The Federal Emergency Management Agency since early 2006 has suppressed warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane victims living in government-provided trailers with levels of a toxic chemical 75 times […]
Mother says baby’s ‘bye-bye’ got them booted off plane
By KEN SUGIURA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/12/07
A weary Kate Penland and her 19-month-old son, Garron, were more than ready to say goodbye to Houston last month as they sat in an airplane that was 11 hours late for its scheduled departure to Oklahoma City.
Instead, the Buford resident […]
Post-Katrina New Orleans death rate shoots up
By Ed StoddardThu Jun 21, 5:37 PM ET
Death rates in New Orleans rose nearly 50 percent as the city began its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, in part because of storm-related damage to its public health facilities, researchers said on Thursday.
“The city lost half of its public health workers after […]
The stiffing of workers on wages and overtime must be harder to shake than cigarettes and meth.
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Rosemary Ramirez Barbour via Hattiesburg American
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Article published May 18, 2007
Pay issues dog contractor
By JILLIAN KRAMER–Hattiesburg American
A company charged with maintaining almost 4,000 FEMA trailers across Mississippi has allegedly violated wage and overtime pay standards stipulated in its contract with […]
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May 9, 2007
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Kansas Tornado Renews Debate on Guard at War
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By SUSAN SAULNY and JIM RUTENBERG
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CHICAGO, May 8 — For months, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas and other governors have warned that their state National Guards are ill-prepared for the next local disaster, be it a tornado a flash flood or a terrorist’s threat, because of […]
Work continues around the pumps and locks of the 17th Street canal at Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans Monday, April 30, 2007. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Corps asked to explain pump contract
By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writer Mon Apr 30, 11:09 PM ET
NEW ORLEANS - When the Army Corps of Engineers solicited bids for drainage pumps for […]
W seems content to allow New Orleans to fall into a paroxysm of violence. As a pal in Chicago had predicted, we have our own Baghdad on the Mississippi.
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Wednesday, Apr. 04, 2007
A Citizens’ Army Grows in New Orleans
By Russell McCulley/New Orleans
Stephanie Pedro, 27, is no Paul Kersey, the New York architect-turned-vigilante Charles Bronson […]