Archive for the ‘Katrina’ Category
Monday, September 5th, 2005
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. ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
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.
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
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 ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
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 ...
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Sunday, September 4th, 2005
This story quoting W.S. Riley, deputy Police Chief in New Orleans, is yet another attempt by a New Orlean's official to shift blame away from local government.
A top New Orleans police officer said that National Guard troops sat around playing cards while people died in the stricken city after Hurricane ...
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
Bush in a Tree has some more on the Mayor and the lack of leadership, mixed in with the Official New Orleans disaster evacuation plan.
Like a lot of government documents, the City of New Orleans emergency plan reads like a term paper written the night before it's due - long, ...
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