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Entries by Harry Shearer from 06/2009

Slow-Walking Disaster Response Four Years Later

| Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics
Read More: New Orleans, Housing Crisis, Hud, New Orleans Housing, New Orleans Recovery, New Orleans Rental Housing, Politics News

New Orleans has an affordable-rental-housing crisis, in the wake of the failure of the federal levees in 2005.

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Never Should Have Built it There -- New York

| Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
Read More: New Orleans, Flood Protection, New York, Katrina, Hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News

A new report predicts the dire future that may await New York City if a hurricane generates serious storm surge. The proposed solution? A set of barriers ringing the city to protect it from inundation.

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Is the Corps of Engineers Astro-Turfing Its Critics?

| Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Read More: Katrina, New Orleans, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News

In New Orleans, when the subject is the Corps and its federal overseers, hope is something that was left at the starting gate last November.

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Attention, Don Rumsfeld: Here's What You've Yearned For

| Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Read More: Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Politics News

Don? This thing on? I'm sure HuffPo hasn't made it into your briefing folders, but here you go: Colin Powell lied. Condi lied. I've said it before. I'll say it again.

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