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The Audacity of Hindsight Could Help FEMA

Michael D. Brown | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Department of Homeland Security, John Mica, Joe Lieberman, Hurricane Katrina, Fema, House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, Politics News
Michael D. Brown

Ironic that a few days after a terrorist attack occurs on U.S. soil, a House committee takes action which would enhance the Nation's ability to respond to and recover from a disaster.

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Flood Insurance: The Flip Side of Katrina

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Fema, Flood Zone Maps, Los Angeles, Politics News
Harry Shearer

FEMA discovered that something they thought was a levee in the 1970s turned out to be a raised railroad track, triggering the redefinition of the neighboring streets as flood zone.

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Reflections on the Loma Prieta Earthquake, 20 Years Later

Art Agnos | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Loma Prieta Earthquake, Herb Caen, Mission District, First Responders, Natural Disasters, Red Cross, George Deukmejian, Earthquake, Pete Wilson, Fema, Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco Bay Bridge, California, Santa Cruz, George H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle, World Series, Nancy Pelosi, Disaster Preparedness, Disasters, Marin, Candlestick Park, San Francisco, Fbi, Embarcadero, Presidio, Politics News
Art Agnos

When a disaster hits, it is too late to put your best people in charge of planning and preparation. That's not the place for soft political patronage.

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Put Kids on Obama's New Orleans Tour

Mark Shriver | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Craig Fugate, Natural Disasters, Fema, Disaster Relief, President Obama, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama, Politics News
Mark Shriver

Katrina affected everybody in New Orleans, but the long term effects of days in crowded shelters, months of homelessness, and years of changing schools have proved especially destructive to children.

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Orly Taitz: Washington Post Profiles 'Birther Queen'

The Washington Post | Liza Mundy | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Orly Taitz, Wiley Drake, Fema, Secret Service, Conspiracy Theories, Lawyer, Patriot Groups, Obama, Charles Lincoln, Conspiracy Theory, Taitz, Birther Queen, Barack Obama, Militias, Who Is Orly Taitz, Obama Birth Certificate, Theories, Charles E. Lincoln, Orly Taitz Profile, Birthers, Israel, Orly Taitz Biography, Dentist, Birther Movement, Moldova, Kenya, Politics News

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif.-The dental office of Orly Taitz, DDS, Esq., is in a low-slung complex in a quiet planned community in Orange County, al...

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GOP Favors Public Option for Property, Not People

David Cay Johnston | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, David Cay Johnston, Floods, Baucus Bill, Public Option, Trent Lott, Health Care Reform, Hurricane Katrina, Flood Insurance, Property Insurance, Fema, Haley Barbour, Public Plan, Thad Cochran, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Gop, Schip, Republicans, Gene Taylor, Politics News
David Cay Johnston

The bias in favor of property over people should be ended with all deliberate speed by raising the standard for people to that of property. A public option would be one small step in that direction.

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FEMA in California

Giles Slade | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Downturn, Drought, Unemployment, Chris Bucci, Fema, Central Valley, Recession, California, Barack Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News
Giles Slade

Across California's Central Valley, towns are already seeing some of the worst unemployment in the country, with rates three and four times the national average

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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
Patrick Sauer

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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Bush Damage To DOJ's Civil Rights Division Will Take Years To Fix

The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fema, CIA Scandal, Bush Administration, Department of Justice, Bradley Schlozman, Eric Holder, Civil Rights, Investigation, Politics News

Attorney General Eric Holder committed this week to repairing the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, one of the most scandal-plagued institut...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Welcome, Big Brother: Ondi Timoner on We Live in Public

Dan Persons | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1984, Fema, The Dandy Warhols, Film, Josh Harris, Exclusive, George Orwell, Facebook Privacy, Facebook, Privacy, New York, Movies, Web 2.0, Cookies, Ondi Timoner, Internet, Quiet: We Live in Public, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Interview, Invasion of Privacy, Soho, Documentary, Voyeurism, Big Brother, We Live in Public, Pseudo, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In the documentary We Live in Public, director Ondi Timoner focuses on an experiment in which 100 people were shut into a Soho, NY basement with all the comforts of home, plus 24/7 surveillance.

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Between Brad Pitt and a Pitfall: New Orleans 4 Years Later

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, Fema, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Katrina Anniversary, Dr. John, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt, The Giving Life, Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

These are the two tales of New Orleans recovery four years after Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi and New Orleans levees imploded. What has been done and what is still undone.

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Four Years Later, Let's End the Human Rights Crisis in KatrinaRitaVille

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Aclu, Fema, Hurricanes, Gulf Coast Recovery, Gulf Coast Civic Works Act, Naacp, Human Rights Violations, Obama New Orleans, Infrastructure, Human Rights, Louisiana, New Orleans Recovery, Lower Ninth Ward, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Nancy Pelosi, Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast, Politics News
Jeffrey Buchanan

The federal government still has a long fight ahead to make good on promises to rebuild a stronger, safer and more equitable Gulf Coast.

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Katrina's Children -- Still Struggling

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Education, Mental Health, Storm, Hurricane Katrina, Fema, Families, Child Health, Barack Obama, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Life is still not back to normal four years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.

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Republicans Praise FEMA Changes Under Obama

AP | BEN EVANS and BECKY BOHRER | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Fema, Bobby Jindal, Jindal Fema, Obama FEMA, Obama Findal Fema, Politics News

WASHINGTON — As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama pledged to right the wrongs he said bogged down efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast after H...

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The Rest of the Story

Carl Pope | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Uranium, Lead, Roadless, Fema, Fema Trailers, Ken Salazar, Green News
Carl Pope

Off the front pages, last year's election is having some wonderful environmental results, and we're making real progress.

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A Muslim American Hero: A Conversation With Dave Eggers on Zeitoun

Wajahat Ali | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Dave Eggers Interview, Katrina, Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, Dave Eggers Zeitoun, Bush Administration, Fema, War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, Taliban, Racial Profiling, Al Qaeda, Media News
Wajahat Ali

The Syrian American protagonist of Dave Eggers' new book -- despite his heroic efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans -- is arrested and brutally detained for weeks in a hellish, makeshift prison.

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Illinois Homeland Security Among Best In Country: FEMA

AP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Homeland Security, Fema, Pat Quinn, Homeland Security, Illinois Emergency Management, Chicago News

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has rated Illinois' homeland security program among the...

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Lessons Not Learned: Forget About Disaster Housing from FEMA

Harry Shearer | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Fema, Hurricnane Katrina, Celebrities Talk Politics, Housing, Politics News
Harry Shearer

If you think of humans as the creatures most capable of learning from past mistakes, the ongoing saga of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans after the federal levees breached should give you some pause.

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Green News Report - June 25, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Supreme Court, House of Representatives, Fema, Big Three Automakers, Mountaintop Removal, United Nations, Waxman-Markey, Green News, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Darryl Hannah, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Darryl Hannah arrested (no, not for public intoxication); Floor fight pending over climate change; Big Three automakers ignored their own consumer research ... The Supreme Court kills a lake.

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FEMA Misspent Millions Intended For Katrina Victims

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: FEMA Katrina, Hurrican Victims, Katrina Victims, FEMA Hurrican Katrina, Fema, Hurricane Katrina, FEMA Money, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency ignored the law and misused millions of dollars to build two warehouses after hurricanes Ka...

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The Disaster Decade: Lessons Unlearned

Mark Kennedy Shriver and Julianne Moore | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Children Policy, Fema, The Disaster Decade, Save the Children, Politics News
Mark Kennedy Shriver and Julianne Moore

After ten years of unrelenting and unprecedented disasters -- what will be remembered as The Disaster Decade -- only seven states meet Save the Children's four minimum safety standards.

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Biloxi Removing FEMA Trailers, Undermining Obama and Victimizing Katrina Survivors

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fema, Mississippi, Human Rights, Homelessness, Acorn, Homeland Security, Hurricane Katrina, Fema Trailers, Oxfam, Barack Obama, Aclu, Housing Crisis, Naacp, Biloxi, Gene Taylor, Gulf Coast Civic Works Act, Joseph Cao, Advancement Projecy, Gulf Coast, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Jeffrey Buchanan

The Biloxi City Council will vote June 16th on an ordinance, backed by the City's community development office, forcing FEMA trailers to be removed from residential zones by August 9th.

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Foreclosed Homes May Become Hurricane Shelters

AP | LISA ORKIN EMMANUEL | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Crisis, Hurricanes, Fema, Florida Real Estate, Florida, Foreclosed Homes, Business News

MIAMI — Trying to make the best of a bad situation, federal officials might use foreclosed homes as temporary housing for hurricane evacuees in Flor...

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David Vitter Agrees To Lift Hold On FEMA Nominee

AP | BEN EVANS | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Federal Emergency Management Agency, White House, Fema, Craig Fugate, Vitter, David Vitter, Senator David Vitter, Fugate, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed President Barack Obama's pick to head the nation's emergency management agency Tuesday after a Louisiana Repub...

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Vitter's FEMA Block Just "Political Posturing": Gibbs

The Hill | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Craig Fugate, Fema Director, Fema, Craig Fugate FEMA, David Vitter, Sen. David Vitter, Politics News

With the start of hurricane season just around the corner, the White House did not mince words Wednesday in blasting Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) for pla...

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