The Army Corps of Engineers' liability for damages to at least three New Orleans plaintiffs has been made official by a Federal district judge. The question now is whether the Justice Dept. will appeal.
AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive...
Harry Shearer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
New Orleanians are right to worry about what the Corps of Engineers is doing in the "rebuilding" of the levee-floodwall system.
Harry Shearer | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
I'm preparing to make a documentary film on the causes of the flooding of New Orleans, and so I decided to attend one of the community outreach meetings the Corps of Engineers holds.
Paul Brown | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green
Lt. General Robert Van Antwerp, Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers would not answer my question "Should New Orleans be abandoned?" But the Gene...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
I'm all for freedom expression even when it comes to veiled pornography, but I don't want to be tricked into buying it for God's sake.
Harry Shearer | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
I found Obama's Olympics lobbying to be the ultimate rebuke to the people of New Orleans regarding his torpor when it comes to remedying the aftermath of the failure of the federal levees four years ago.
Patrick Sauer | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy
When I was a teenager, I overcame my Hindu upbringing to become a Catholic. Jesus spoke to me and told me Vishnu doesn't vote.
John McQuaid | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Time after time, various government agencies have responded haphazardly, doing just enough to make people in New Orleans feel safe again, but not enough to prevent the next big disaster.
Harry Shearer | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics
New Orleans is watching a second consecutive president trash his promises to "rebuild it better." Obama won't even do the obligatory photo-op in the city on Saturday's anniversary. It's more of the same.
Harry Shearer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
The Army Corps of Engineers has signed off on a plan the Corps' own staff has critiqued as less effective at preventing flooding than an alternative plan in New Orleans.
USA Today | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Most of the $2.2 billion in economic stimulus money for Army Corps of Engineers construction projects will be spent in the home districts of members o...
Harry Shearer | Posted 04.13.2009 | Home
Here comes confirmation that a money shortage may be inclining the Army Corps of Engineers toward building a technologically inferior solution to New Orleans' Category 3 hurricane protection.
Harry Shearer | Posted 04.06.2009 | Home
The causes of the erosion in Louisiana are clear. The means to reverse the process are equally well known. All that's missing is... a sense of urgency.
Harry Shearer | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
Friends of mine assure me that this is a stealth priority -- New Orleans is an issue that Obama cares so deeply about he dare not mention it yet.
Harry Shearer | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
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.
Bil Browning | Posted 10.18.2008 | Living
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...
Harry Shearer | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics
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?
Harry Shearer | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
The president's speechwriters found it advisable to ignore three independent forensic engineering studies and the Corps of Engineers' own 6000-page report.
Harry Shearer | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment
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?
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 07.07.2008 | Green
Corps engineers in New Orleans maintain that the seepage is not cause for alarm.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living
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...
Harry Shearer | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
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.
Harry Shearer | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics