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Recent Ruling Shows True Tragedy of Katrina was Federal Government's Creation of the Disaster Itself

Sandy Rosenthal | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans Levees, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Army Corps of Engineers, US Army Corps of Engineers, Judge Stanwood Duval, Politics News

The majority of Americans live in counties protected by levees, and the most important ones are built by the US Army Corps of Engineers, whose failure in Louisiana was presumably not an isolated event.

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Clean Water Act Expansion: 28 Western Republicans Seeking To Block Revision Of Clean Water Act

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 12.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Epa, Colorado, Clean Water Act Expansion, Army Corps of Engineers, Clean Water Act, Wyoming, Denver News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The three members of Wyoming congressional delegation is among 28 Republican lawmakers who oppose changing the Clean Water Act ...

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Dam the Carp! No more dithering on invasive species

Henry Henderson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Wisconsin, Asian Carp, Lake Michigan, Nrdc, Invasive Species, Midwest Generation, Pollution, Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago River, Crawford Generating Station, Natural Resources Defense Council, Fisk Generating Station, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Great Lakes, Great-Lakes-Fish-Fence, Mwrd, Michigan, Chicago News

The news was very bad on Friday when state and Federal agencies admitted that tests show invasive Asian carp have evaded an electrical barrier intende...

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Why Obama Needs to Weigh In With the Corps of Engineers

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, US Army Corps of Engineers, Obama New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News

Republicans defended Bush and blamed state and local officials when the Army Corps of Engineers was found culpable for the flooding of New Orleans. Now Democrats are doing the same thing.

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New Orleans: Where Accountability Failed, Liability Follows

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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

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.

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Judge: Hurricane Katrina Flooding Was Caused By Army Corps Of Engineers' Negligence

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Negligence, New Orleans, Ninth Ward, Bobby Jindal, Hurricane Katrina, Kathleen Blanco, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Levees, Nagin, Cause of Katrina, Hurricane, Katrina Flooding, Katrina Memorial, Louisiana, Ray Nagin, Army Corps of Engineers, Road Home, What Caused Hurrican Katrina Flooding, 9th Ward, Katrina Recovery, Justice, National Government, Katrina Court Case, Mr-Go, Mrgo, Home News

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive...

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Out of the Mouths of Corps Managers...

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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

New Orleanians are right to worry about what the Corps of Engineers is doing in the "rebuilding" of the levee-floodwall system.

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New Orleans: The Corps Defends the Future

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Ninth Ward, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News

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.

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US Army Corps can't stop floods in New Orleans

Paul Brown | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Floods, Levees, Louisiana, Army Corps of Engineers, Green News

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...

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If It's Art, Must It Be Pornography?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Women, Children, Books, Writing, Media, Sexual Abuse, Strip Clubs, Pornography, Amazon.com, New Yourk Times, Art, Boston Globe, Reviews, Times Picayune, Eve Ensler, Strippers, Andre Dubus, Book Reviews, New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Vagina Monologues, Books News

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.

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Obama's Plate is Not Too Full After All

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Maria Garzino, Chicago Olympic Bid, Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans Levees, Obama New Orleans, New Orleans, Barack Obama, Politics News

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.

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Bobby Jindal: Soaring to New Heights For New Orleans

Patrick Sauer | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Helicopters, New Orleans, Harry Shearer, Louisiana, Separation of Church and State, Bobby Jindal, Evangelicals, Southern Decadence, Parishes, George W. Bush, Fema, Hurricane Katrina, Army Corps of Engineers, Barack Obama, Big Easy, Superdome, Comedy News

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.

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Still Fiddling While New Orleans Drowns

John McQuaid | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Climate Change, Congress, New Orleans Convention Center, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News

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.

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Playing the Inside Game -- A Cautionary Tale

Harry Shearer | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, Army Corps of Engineers, Rebuilding New Orleans, Katrina Anniversary, Obama New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina Anniversary, Politics News

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.

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Another Stimulus? Who Needs It? Not New Orleans

Harry Shearer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Essence Festival, Army Corps of Engineers, Concert, New Orleans-Louisiana, Politics News

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.

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Stimulus Funds Going To Key Lawmakers' States

USA Today | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Florida, Ississippi, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, California, House Appropriations Subcommittee, Texas, Army Corps of Engineers, Michigan, Stimulus, Illinois, Politics News

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...

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"I'll Consider It Criminal"

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.13.2009 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Levee Repairs, Stimulus Package, Katrina, Hurricanes, Levees, Lake Ponchartrain, Home News

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.

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Is It too Late for a Sense of Urgency?

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.06.2009 | Home

Read More: New Orleans, Coastal-Erosion, President Obama, Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Home News

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.

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What's Missing From Obama's Infrastructure Plan

Harry Shearer | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Barack Obama, Public Works Campaign, New New Deal, Obama Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Obama Infrastructure Plan, Politics News

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.

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Fixing The Responder, Ignoring the Cause?

Harry Shearer | Posted 12.25.2008 | 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

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 10.18.2008 | Living

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

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: Nobody Asked, Why Not Sooner?

Harry Shearer | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

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

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 09.20.2008 | Politics

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

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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The NBA's David Stern Does Doo-Doo Diligence

Harry Shearer | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment

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

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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