The Audacity of Hindsight Could Help FEMA
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.
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.
Harry Shearer | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
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.
Art Agnos | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
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.
Mark Shriver | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
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.
The Washington Post | Liza Mundy | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
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...
David Cay Johnston | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
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.
Giles Slade | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
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
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.
The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Attorney General Eric Holder committed this week to repairing the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, one of the most scandal-plagued institut...
Dan Persons | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
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.
Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
The federal government still has a long fight ahead to make good on promises to rebuild a stronger, safer and more equitable Gulf Coast.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Life is still not back to normal four years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.
AP | BEN EVANS and BECKY BOHRER | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama pledged to right the wrongs he said bogged down efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast after H...
Carl Pope | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green
Off the front pages, last year's election is having some wonderful environmental results, and we're making real progress.
Wajahat Ali | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media
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.
AP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has rated Illinois' homeland security program among the...
Harry Shearer | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
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.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green
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.
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency ignored the law and misused millions of dollars to build two warehouses after hurricanes Ka...
Mark Kennedy Shriver and Julianne Moore | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
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.
Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
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.
AP | LISA ORKIN EMMANUEL | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business
MIAMI — Trying to make the best of a bad situation, federal officials might use foreclosed homes as temporary housing for hurricane evacuees in Flor...
AP | BEN EVANS | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed President Barack Obama's pick to head the nation's emergency management agency Tuesday after a Louisiana Repub...
The Hill | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
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...
Michael D. Brown | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics