Three years after Hurricane Katrina washed homes from their foundations, ended lives and scattered families, the progress is, at best, erratic.
Harry Shearer | Posted 08.03.2008 | Politics
For those outside New Orleans who ask, "what happened to all the Federal money down there?", a guide appears in the Times-Picayune explaining the labyrinth homeowners have had to navigate to get their Road Home grant.
Laura Flanders | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Democrats and Republicans played out a partisan fight Wednesday over who is to blame for housing hurricane victims in toxic trailers. Over one millio...
Harry Shearer | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Another shoe dropped in the FEMA trailer scandal this week, with the publication of a report pinpointing why so many New Orleanians inhaled such high levels of formaldehyde fumes for so long.
Jared Bernstein | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Under a McCain or any other modern conservative administration, it's not that there would be noticeably less government -- it's that there would be worse government.
John McQuaid | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
As disasters get bigger and more complicated, the role of government in disaster recovery and urban planning will have to grow.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
For countless women, Gloria Steinem is the personification of their own struggle with gender issues. From the stage, she paid homage to women of accomplishment in their respective fields that were in the audience.
Grist | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has promised it will never again use formaldehyde-tainted trailers to house victims of a natural disaster -- u...
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — The government may house disaster victims in trailers this hurricane season as a last resort, despite promises never to use them ag...
Robin Wilson | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
The trailers FEMA sent to Katrina refugees were taxpayer-funded carcinogen containers -- with air quality so poor that the agency was issued an order to stop using them due to the high levels of formaldehyde.
Salon | Sheila Kaplan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Last summer, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was publicly shamed when lawmakers revealed the agency, to avoid lawsuits, put off testing traile...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign announced on Thursday the formulation of a Catastrophe Advisory Committee, designed to provide the former New Yo...
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
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...
New York Times | Susan Saulny | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
More than two years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is suffering from an acute shortage of housing that has nearly doubled the cost of rental uni...
Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
On Oct. 23, the day of FEMA's now infamous phony news conference, the agency's former external affairs chief, Pat Philbin, announced plans to promote ...
236.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The day after Thanksgiving is the holiday season's so-called "Black Friday," the day when shoppers across the country steel themselves for a flood of ...
Washington Post | Spencer Hsu | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
An internal investigation into a fake news conference staged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency during last month's California wildfires found...
CNN | Jeanne Meserve | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Aaron Walker, press secretary for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, submitted his resignation to FEMA administrator David Paulison Wednesday, a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
FEMA Administrator David Paulison, appropriately chastised by the "Anglo-Saxon" remarks of David Chertoff, wants you to know that he's sorry for the p...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
On Friday, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino had to take up the issue of FEMA's decision to stage a Potemkin press conference on the agency's re...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The White House scolded the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday for staging a phony news conference about assistance to victims of wildfires...
Washington Post | Al Kamen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
FEMA has truly learned the lessons of Katrina. Even its handling of the media has improved dramatically. For example, as the California wildfires rage...
Rep. Steve Israel | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics