The time of benign insanity is sadly, suddenly, finally over, and the city and the area now return to the malign insanity of the real situation.
Hurricane-buckled? Lost members to Katrina? The storm that smashed thousands of homes? Sorry, AP writer, join the Gang of Ignorance.
Our gratitude for those who really do keep the flame burning reminded the crowd--black, white, young, old--why we keep coming back.
Nancy Grace's staff was ordered to attend a workshop on reporting basics to help remedy lax journalistic standards.
We all know by now that the early "reports"--i.e., unsubstantiated rumors repeated on air--regarding conditions in Katrina-time New Orleans were, to p...
A major GOP talking point on the Katrina briefing video has focused on the distinction between "breaching" and "overtopping". But those two terms have been confused for months.
Somebody, some day, is going to do a good, long, multi-part investigative piece about the Army Corps, the way it works, and the way it doesn't work.
The Democrats borrowed their new slogan from John Kerry, and now they're arguing about its syntax. Case closed.
Two different independent engineering groups are finding serious fault with the materials used to repair the levee on the east side of New Orleans.
Without flood plain maps, insurers, lenders and others crucial to the rebuilding sit on the sidelines and wait. What's taking FEMA so long with those maps?
When you're busy creating the new Yugoslavia in the Middle East, there's not really any need for the old one.
For a wonderful, feet-on-the-street slice of how New Orleans is, right now, you can't beat Chris Rose's column in today's T-P.
What's hard to discern as the debate sharpens in the House Appropriations Jungle is how much of the money has been spent, and on what.
A recent spate of articles allege that Larry King--hold on to your chairs, America--doesn't research his subjects and focuses to an immoderate degree on celebrities.
What's missing from the mainstream business media's stories about the forced Knight-Ridder sale? Any sense of what's at stake.
Much of the federal money, though certainly not all, is paying back what the citizens of New Orleans invested in their own future. How's that, Cato Institute?
Jim Muir doesn't usually do news media coverage, but "news" of Operation Swarmer was apparently too weird for him.
Now we're getting somewhere. Today's Washington Post makes it clear that, when billions of federal dollars are involved in emergency-response operati...
The Army Corps of Engineers meets a much lower standard in constructing levees than it does in constructing dams, even earthen dams.
The major NYC press have been happy to ignore both my presence and the promotional purpose of my visit.
Bill Keller's NYTimes is turning page two into a regular Sorry We Didn't Check That Department.
In one world, people's homes have been destroyed by federal incompetence and compensation may never come. In the other, they can be compensated for their property and yet retain it intact.
Katrina, the Endangered Species payouts, and the contracting corruption in Iraq need to be sewn together so people can see the larger picture.
Arguing against Christopher Hitchens on Hardball was...the Rev. Al Sharpton. I'm not kidding. What, Queen Latifah wasn't available?
Sunday's Washington Post reports on an investigation of the Red Cross (and the Humane Society) by the La. Attorney General.
