At last, a non-New Orleanian who grasps, and communicates, what happened to the Big Easy. Will Grunwald's powerful and early-in-the-anniversary-storystakes start a rethink at other MSM outlets?
Katrina's surge at this spot was no more than ten feet. The American people paid the Corps to be almost four feet short of protecting the city. Too many weak links indeed.
Editors at CNN and elsewhere have dismissed the Corps story as "too complicated" or "inside baseball", but the reality is doing that story would require correcting the template.
If you're going to be making fun of politicians, you don't hang out with them.
A higher percentage of Congressmen and Senators have visited Iraq than have visited Mississippi and New Orleans.
The long-term future of the city depends on the restoration of the wetlands. But the immediate and short-term future of New Orleans depends on a stronger, smarter storm surge protection system.
For all those who've been suggesting that New Orleanians are whiny beggars demanding things from the federal government that they should be doing on their own, here comes the Times-Picayune with a deadly rebuttal.
What started out as stunning rumors over the weekend, for those interested in New Orleans city politics, ended up as a guilty plea on Monday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, leading a tour of selected Congressional Dems to New Orleans, was trying to send the message that she understands and cares, and instead put her foot in it.
For those who've kept insisting that the federal government isn't responsible for the flooding of New Orleans here comes an Aha! moment from an officer of the U.S. Department of Justice, Robin Smith.
The mainstream media seem to be embubbled -- still listening to the officials returning from their Green Zone dog-and-pony shows, while ignoring the reality of life in the other 99% of the country.
As the state and the Feds continue to wrangle over the future of the city's health care structure, it's important to know who's getting the job done in the meantime.
New Orleans, if you want real help, please schedule your next failure of the federal levees during an even-numbered year, like the subprime borrowers did. READ MORE
K Plus 2 Equals... People I know here are aghast at the notion that DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff's name was even floated as a replacement for Alberto Gonzales. READ MORE
Timing is Everything Can't they ever get it right? Tonight, NBC New Orleans Bureau Chief Martin Savidge said bells rang in New Orleans today at approximately 9:30 a.m., the "moment the first levee breached". READ MORE
Harry Shearer's Two Years of New Orleans Coverage
People I know here are aghast at the notion that DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff's name was even floated as a replacement for Alberto Gonzales. It was Chertoff, not Brown, who was busy in Atlanta on Katrina Tuesday, attending a bird flu conference.
Can't they ever get it right? Tonight, NBC New Orleans Bureau Chief Martin Savidge said bells rang in New Orleans today at approximately 9:30 a.m., the "moment the first levee breached."
The most undercovered story in the anniversary derby: the political fight between Washington and the state and locals over the future of public housing and medical care for the indigent.
Republican Senator Larry Craig of Idaho will announce tomorrow that he's resigning from the Senate to spend more time with his men's room.
