1.0 link 108114 <![CDATA[Investigate the Levees]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mcquaid/investigate-the-levees_b_108114.html Kudos to John Barry for pushing what, until recently, seemed like a dead letter -- a federal "8/29" commission to investigate what went wrong with the New Orleans levee system during Hurricane Katrina:

The resolution approved by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East was proposed by authority Secretary John Barry, also the author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America.

An 8/29 commission was originally proposed in 2006 by Levees.org, a local group...

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