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The Other Essential Reform Joe Lieberman Is Blocking

Kelly Caldwell | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Craig Fugate, Susan Collins, Fema, Joe Lieberman, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Kelly Caldwell

Not only has Sen. Joe Lieberman been working overtime to smother health reform, he's parked himself squarely in the path of another badly-needed, long-awaited change: FEMA.

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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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Giving FEMA the Green Light

Kelly Caldwell | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Disaster Preparedness, Craig Fugate, Fema, Florida Floods, Disaster Relief, North Dakota Floods, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Natural Disasters, Politics News
Kelly Caldwell

It is not enough to either sit by and hope that each president makes disaster-recovery a priority, or to spread urban legends designed to make FEMA as popular as Guantanamo Bay.

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Craig Fugate: Obama's FEMA Director

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN and BRENT KALLESTAD | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Craig Fugate, Craig Fugate FEMA, Fema, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Florida's Division of Emergency Management, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal Emergency Relief Act, Federal Emergency and Management Administration, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday tapped Florida emergency manager Craig Fugate to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ...

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Three Things Congress (Yes, Congress) Must Do to Fix FEMA

Kelly Caldwell | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: 111th Congress, Fema Trailers, Fema, Recovery Hurricane Ike, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Housing, Politics News
Kelly Caldwell

Of the many tragic failures of FEMA in the last seven years, those related to housing were among the most conspicuous. And they were caused in part by Congressional blunders.

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Forget the Yanks, Here Come the Dutch

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Presidential Debates, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Levees, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Harry Shearer

New Orleans may be, according to the old slogan, "the city that care forgot", but, judging by this campaign, it's certainly the city America forgot.

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Hurricane Katrina, Three Years Later

Rep. Steve Israel | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Steve Israel

Three years after Hurricane Katrina washed homes from their foundations, ended lives and scattered families, the progress is, at best, erratic.

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The F Word: Homes not Hearings

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Live From Main Street, Grittv, Flanders, Gulf Coast, Trailer, Fema, Housing Crisis, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Laura Flanders

Democrats and Republicans played out a partisan fight Wednesday over who is to blame for housing hurricane victims in toxic trailers. Over one millio...

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The Floods: New Orleans, God, and Nature Can No Longer be Blamed

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Floods, Iowa Flooding, Midwest Floods, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, Midwest Flood Damage, Hurricane Katrina, Midwest Flooding, Politics News
Georgianne Nienaber

What happened in New Orleans, and what is happening today in the heartland, is the result of a massive infrastructure failure and the siphoning of tax resources into the war economy.

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The Benediction of Big Al

Mary Lyon | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Obama Iowa Floods, Al Gore Endorses Obama, Al Gore, Iowa Floods, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Republican Neglect, Republicans, Democrats, Barack Obama, Politics News
Mary Lyon

To this day, I still think Gore is the gold standard. Our country would be light years better off if we'd had Al Gore's steady hand at the wheel for the past seven-and-some years.

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Deconstructing Ray Nagin's State of the City Report

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Crime, Ray Nagin, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Recovery, John Swenson, Bush, Nola, Lra, Politics News
Georgianne Nienaber

A dumpster load of money has either been allocated or earmarked for New Orleans, but where is the money? It sure as heck isn't in the lower ninth, which now resembles a cow pasture.

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Oops! Just a Little Leak

Harry Shearer | Posted 04.25.2008 | 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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FEMA Covered Up Cancer Risks To Katrina Victims

Salon | Sheila Kaplan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Fema Trailers, Fema, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Politics News

Last summer, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was publicly shamed when lawmakers revealed the agency, to avoid lawsuits, put off testing traile...

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FEMA Ranks Lowest In Public Approval

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Public Approval, Fema, FEMA Public Approval, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Politics News

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has yet to shake its poor reputation, more than two years after its mishandling of Hurricane Katrina, a poll s...

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