Army Corps of Engineers

Fixing The Responder, Ignoring the Cause?

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Fema, Obama, US Army Corps of Engineers, Barack Obama, Infrastructure, Obama FEMA, Army Corps of Engineers, Rebuilding New Orleans, Politics News
Harry Shearer

FEMA was the poster child for federal incompetence, according to the consensus media narrative of the New Orleans flooding disaster. But the true poster child was and is the US Army Corps of Engineers.

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Deployed to Afghanistan and in need of soap

Bil Browning | Posted 09.17.2008 | Living

Read More: US Soldiers, Soap, Army Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan, Lesbian, Afghanistan War, Living News
Bil Browning

I wanted to be sure HuffPo readers saw my post on The Bilerico Project about the Great Bilerico Soap Drive! One of our readers is a lesbian deployed t...

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New Orleans Exhales, Then Gasps Again

Harry Shearer | Posted 09.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi, Presidential Debates, Mississippi Debate, Mississippi Presidential Debate, Hurricane Gustav, Politics News
Harry Shearer

A couple of very prominent Senators currently running for president might want to consider something when they arrive in Oxford, Mississippi in three weeks for their first debate.

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Rest Assured New Orleans, I'm Sure Lt. Gen. Van Antwerp is Praying for You

Chris Rodda | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion and the Military, Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Religion, Army Corps of Engineers, Robert L. Van Antwerp, David Petraeus, Politics News
Chris Rodda

For those who don't know who Lt. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp is, he's the Commanding General of the Army Corps of Engineers -- the guy who's been in ch...

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New Orleans: Nobody Asked, Why Not Sooner?

Harry Shearer | Posted 08.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Gustav, Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricanes, Louisiana, Hurricane Gustav, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Is money the reason New Orleans has to wait three more years before even the semblance of protection is in place? What's the city supposed to do in the meantime?

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What Bush Said in New Orleans Today, and What He Didn't Say

Harry Shearer | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, George W. Bush, George Bush, Hurricane Katrina, President Bush, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News
Harry Shearer

The president's speechwriters found it advisable to ignore three independent forensic engineering studies and the Corps of Engineers' own 6000-page report.

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Why Not Trust The Corps? They're "Scrambling"

Harry Shearer | Posted 08.02.2008 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Home News
Harry Shearer

With the continued reports of water leaking and puddling in backyards on the supposedly protected side of the 17th St. Canal -- reports the Corps is still scrambling (my word) to explain -- New Orleans is once again forced to ask: is this the best America can do?

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The NBA's David Stern Does Doo-Doo Diligence

Harry Shearer | Posted 07.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Army Corps of Engineers, Harry Shearer on New Orleans, NBA Referee Scandal, Harry Shearer, NBA Referees, Nba, Entertainment News
Harry Shearer

Pardon the George Bush 41-inspired wordplay, but what can one think of the NBA's attempt to get a P.R. handle on the refereeing scandal in the league?

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Floods: Update, New Orleans Examining Levee Seepage

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Floods, Katrina, New Orleans, Levees, 17th Street Canal, Vice President Dick Cheney, Army Corps of Engineers, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

Corps engineers in New Orleans maintain that the seepage is not cause for alarm.

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Fear of a $25 Corndog: If the Good Lord's Willing and the Creek Don't Rise

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, Corn Dog, Levees, Army Corps of Engineers, Midwest Flooding, Farm, Barack Obama, Green News, Green, Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

As the rivers converge and and the crest moves south, national efforts to shore up our levees ought to look like someone is building the pyramids. The...

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New Orleans: The Corps Gets It Wrong Again, and Charting the Bumps in the Road Home

Harry Shearer | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Road Home, Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Two new reports, two more confirmations that New Orleanians are not yet out of the federal woods.

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Source Asks "What is the Real Water Policy of the United States?"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Louisiana, Iowa, Watershed, Floods, Aquifer, Cedar Rapids, Army Corps of Engineers, Mary Landrieu, Cedar Falls, Ncmr, Politics News
Georgianne Nienaber

It is easy to blame nature, but what or who is behind a water management policy in the United States that allowed the city of New Orleans to be ruined?

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After the Festival, the Celebration

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Jazzfest, Politics News
Harry Shearer

New Orleans made the good kind of news this past week -- what didn't make national news, though, was a new court decision.

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Oops! Just a Little Leak

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Katrina, Rebuilding New Orleans, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Yesterday, the Times-Picayune carried a very restrained story about a potentially inflammatory subject: the Corps of Engineers has discovered a persistent leak in the 17th St. Canal floodwall.

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Snapshot: Mississippi High Water -- South Louisiana April 2008

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, Louisiana, Flood, Nature, Morgan City, Katrina, Government Funding, Congress, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi, Stephensville, Carrollton, Living News
Georgianne Nienaber

Water stalks southern Louisiana like a panther seeking its prey. Hurricane Katrina was the kill, but the water never relents -- always moving, sometimes retreating, forever flowing.

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The Corps Just Keeps The Hits Comin'

Harry Shearer | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Lost in all of the major-league screw-ups is one crucial fact: the Corps of Engineers did not have large sandbags pre-stationed as the hurricane approached.

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"The First I've Seen of This Information"

Harry Shearer | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, John Barry, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Either Col. Jeffrey Bedey is living in a Corps-imposed bubble, where the insiders are rigorously shielded from outside comments and critiques, or he's being disingenuous.

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Keystone Corps

John McQuaid | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Army Corps of Engineers, Army Corps Katrina, Army Corps New Orleans, New Orleans Rebuilding, Politics News
John McQuaid

The Corps can tout progress building floodgates and moving earth, but if it can't figure out what the flood risks are for people, what's the point?

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"There's That Stupid Negative Sign"

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.17.2007 | Politics

Read More: Katrina, New Orleans, Harry Shearer, Army Corps of Engineers, Harry Shearer on New Orleans, Politics News
Harry Shearer

The new gates and levee repairs by the US Army Corps of Engineers are, it now appears, giving almost no additional protection.

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Comparing Cumquats and Canteloupes

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.27.2007 | Media

Read More: Governor Blanco, Katrina, California Fires, Army Corps of Engineers, Media News
Harry Shearer

Unless one of the SoCal arsonists is proved to be a federal employee, the government's involvement in the causation of Louisiana's woes is the primary distinction between the Katrina and the SoCal wildfires.

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New Orleans: Trailer Trapped

Irwin Redlener, M.D. | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Poverty, Columbia Univeristy Disaster, New Orleans Mental Health, Kids New Orleans, Levees, Infastructure, Army Corps of Engineers, Trailer Parks New Orleans, Rebuilding New Orleans, Second Anniversary of Katrina, Children New Orleans, Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Hurricane Katrina, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Gulf Coast, Global Green, Politics News
Irwin Redlener, M.D.

Every day of delay in returning New Orleans families to a semblance of normal home threatens mental health and well-being of thousands of children.

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The St. Rita's Jury and the Dutch

Harry Shearer | Posted 09.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Katrina, New Orleans, Dutch Flood Plans, St. Rita's Nursing Home, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Somehow the Dutch have found it useful to look back in order to plan two centuries into the future. Is there any institution in this country that can even conceive of planning in that kind of time frame?

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