Archive for September 5th, 2005

A Katrina Commission

Hillary Clinton is calling for a Federal Probe into what went wrong with Katrina.
I agree with her!
Unfortunately, I doubt such a probe would look into the serious failing of the New Orleans and Louisiana governments. Usually such a probe is nothing more than a partisan circus of finger pointing.
But certainly an honest [...]

Another Rejection

In my email this morning…
Dear Todd,
Although we won’t be publishing this particular piece, we do thank you for sending “Allgemeine Kosten”. It was a good read. We’re not able to give specific feedback, but please take a look at Editors’ Input for some ideas. Again, we appreciate the opportunity to read your work!
Ever onward.

Raghav?

I think my blog has been hacked. Every single post now contains a link labeled ‘Raghav’ under the header, and I can’t seem to locate where it is coming from. I’ll continue to work on it, so for now please ignore it and certainly don’t click the link.

Deathmatch

Now Nagin is going after Blanco.
Nagin singled out Gov. Kathleen Blanco for criticism, saying that the governor had asked for 24 hours to think over a decision when time was a luxury that no one, especially refugees, had.
New Orleans – the capital of finger pointing.

Geez!

Hearing on CNN today that there are quite a few people still in New Orleans that are refusing to be evacuated. They want to sit in their flooded homes and wait for the city to be cleaned up around them, all the while expecting to have food and water delivered.
This is starting to make [...]

Levees, FEMA, and the Blame Game

Lots of interesting information coming to the surface in the aftermath of Katrina.
First off, the ’slow’ response of FEMA to the hurricane. While the response seems shocking to a lot of people, and perhaps it could be better, there are some interesting policy positions that were well known to a great many people well [...]