Michael Brown

Appeals Court Okays Closed Meetings For Financial Review Boards

Posted 05.22.2012

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The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that Detroit and Flint's state-appointed financial review teams were not subject to the state's Open Meetings ...

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Mayor's Redskins Courtship Continues

The Huffington Post | Michael Grass | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Michael Brown, Video, Reservation 13 Redevelopment, Jack Evans, Vincent Gray, Redskins, DC Real Estate, Reservation 13, Hill East, Washington Redskins, Vince Gray, Redskins Reservation 13, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Will the nation's capital ever lure the Redskins back from the suburbs? For some District of Columbia officials, including Mayor Vincent...

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Sundance Film Festival Highlights Best-In-Class Green Docs

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Scgh, Jennifer Schwab, Park City, Sundance Film Festival, Atomic States of America, James Balog, Sierra Club, Michael Brown, Chasing Ice, A Fierce Green Fire, Sierra Club Green Home, Sundance, Utah, 2012, Green News
Jennifer Schwab

It so happens that several particularly memorable environmental documentaries were screened this year at Sundance and I was lucky enough to see a few of them.

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Flint's Emergency Manager Finally Meets With Public

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 02.03.2012

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On Thursday, Flint Emergency Manager Michael Brown held his first public meeting with city residents since he was appointed emergency manager in Novem...

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Flint EM Relaxes Grip On Elected Officials

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Michael Brown, Dayne Walling, Detroit Emergency Manager, Scott Kincaid, Flint, Public Act 4, Flint Emergency Manager, Emergency Manager Flint, Flint MIchigan, Detroit News

Flint Emergency Manager Michael Brown has decided to restore limited responsibilities and salaries to the city's mayor and city council, the Flint Jo...

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Dupont High Heel Race Takes To 17th Street For 25th Year (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 12.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Late Tuesday night, scores of glitter-loving men took a mad dash down 17th Street NW as part of the annual Dupont High-Heel Race, a colo...

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Heckuva' Job, Brownie. Get Over It.

Michael D. Brown | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Heck of a Job, Insurrection Act, Michael Brown, Homeland Security, Katrina Victims, Fema, Hurricane Katrina, Posse Comitatus Act, Jason Salzman, Denver News
Michael D. Brown

Some say that I blame the victims of Hurricane Katrina for something, never stating what I blame them for, but intimating that they were at fault for something. Let me make clearthat the federal government had no authority to evacuate New Orleans.

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Heck-of-a-Job Brownie Blames Katrina Victims

Jason Salzman | Posted 11.15.2011

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Jason Salzman

So, is Brownie proud of his claim to fame? Proud of his response and W's to Katrina? And whether he's proud or not, why remind people of Bush's embarrassment by playing the Brownie line over and over again.

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Amanda Terkel

'Brownie' Weighs In On Hurricane Irene

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael Brown wants federal emergency disaster aid to be offset by spending c...

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16 Pound Baby Born In Texas

Posted 11.15.2011

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Little JaMichael Brown isn't your average baby. Born Friday at the Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview, Texas, infant JaMichael weighed in at ...

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Michael Brown Spreads Katrina Blame In New Book

The Washington Post | Hide This | Posted 08.15.2011

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In his new book “Deadly Indifference,” Michael Brown, the FEMA director when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, charges President Bush with “...

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Michael McLaughlin

Sarah Palin Writes Like Middle-Schooler -- And Better Than Some CEOs

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 11.15.2011

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The huge cache of Sarah Palin's emails released Friday offered not only a chance to see what she was writing about during her uncompleted term as Alas...

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Facebook Terminated Employee Over Insider Trading Scandal

techcrunch.com | Posted 06.01.2011

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Facebook corporate development manager Michael Brown (pictured left in happier days) recently and abruptly left Facebook, and the company then hired a...

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Left Banke at Joe's Pub: Utterly Transcendent

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joe?S Pub, Shadows Breaking Over My Head, Sing Little Bird Sing, Hit Records, Lazy Day, Mike Fornatale, Michael Brown, Paul Alves, Garage Rock, Rick Reil, Mickey Finn, Sixties, Jenn DeVore, Baroque-Pop, Sundazed Records, Walk Away Renee, She May Call You Up Tonight, Joe McGinty, Eleanor Norton, Steve Martin-Caro, Barterers and Their Wives, Psychedelic, Susan Aquila, Pretty Ballerina, Tom Finn, Dark Is the Bark, Music News, Charly Cazalet, Tom Feher, Entertainment News, George Cameron, Left Banke, Rock and Roll, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

The last time the Left Banke stepped onto a stage to perform together as a band was 1969, so to say those in the audience at Joe's Pub last weekend we...

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Who Needs Superman?

Morgan Pehme | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Rhee, City Year, Bill Clinton, John McCain, City Year New York, Arne Duncan, Colin Powell, David Caplan, President Obama, Bono, Davis Guggenheim, Natashea Winters, Waiting for Superman, Michael Brown, Mat Thomas, Rachel Mosbacher, Joel Klein, Alan Khazei, Hillary Clinton, New York News
Morgan Pehme

Anyone who feels inconsolable about the future of America's public school system should visit the headquarters of City Year New York for a bit of cheering up.

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"Dude," Where's My President!?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Ostroy

My biggest problem with Obama's Daily Show appearance was that it was a dreadful performance. The president was unattractively defensive, and at times rambling, humorless, pleading and frustrated.

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Michael Brown Plans Live Broadcasts Of Radio Show From New Orleans

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER — Former FEMA Director Michael Brown is taking his Denver radio show on the road for live broadcasts from New Orleans in advance of Sunda...

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Government and Go-Go: Conversations with Stone Sour and Slipknot's Corey Taylor, and Chuck Brown

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Queen Latifah, Stone Sour, Puff Daddy, Go-Go Music, Hawkeyes, Eva Cassidy, Chris Biodo, Chris Isaak, Ledisi, The Soul Searchers, Chuck Brown, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Michael Brown, Corey Taylor, Sb 1070, Slipknot, Harry Reid, Barbara Bush, Frank Luntz, Earls of Rhythm, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

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Weekly News Roundup: Muslims, Gays, Nazis and More!

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Fema, Family Research Council, Times Square Bomb, Nazism, Bob Mcdonnell, Dana Perino, Faisal Shahzad Times Square Bomber, Arizona, Internatinoal-Arabian-Horse-Association, Barack Obama, Gulf Oil Spill Obama, Virginia, Islamophobia, Michael Brown, Times Square, Greece, Oil Spill, George Rekers Rentboy, Time Square Bombing, Greece Debt Crisis, Brownie, James Dobson, Dana Perino Cuban Missile Crisis, BP Oil Spill, Arizona Immigration Law, George Rekers, Faisal Shahzad, Comedy News
Katie Halper

After obsessing over Muslim background of suspected Times Square bomber, media becomes enlightened and religiously tolerant, and overlooks fact that the man who helped foil bomb plot was Muslim.

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The Rise of Eco-Terror

Barry Bortnick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fox News, Michael Brown, Neil Cavuto, George Soros, Cape Cod Wind Power, Oil Spill, Barack Obama, Denver News
Barry Bortnick

As the bubbling crude slowly makes its way into every estuary, wetland and beach cove, the blame game heats up. I blame the environmentalists.

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More GOP History Re-Writes: Katrina, the oil spill and a failed bombing attempt

Karen Finney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Brown, Gop, Bp, Oil Spill, War on Terror, Terrorism, George Pataki, Times Square Car Bomb, Obama Administration, Hurricane Katrina, New York, Politics News
Karen Finney

The BP oil spill is not hurricane Katrina. The failed Times Square car-bombing attempt is not an example a failed system. As usual the GOP has no...

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Green News Report -- May 6, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Factory Farms, Obama Administration, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Michael Brown, Solar Energy, Oil Spill, John Kerry, Coal Ash, Hurricane Katrina, Cancer, Coal Mining, Solar Power, Bp, Nashville, Fema, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, Lindsey Graham, Toxic Chemicals, Minerals Management Service, Nashville Flooding, BRAD BLOG, Environment, Green News, Oil, Harry Reid, Fox News, Climate Legislation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BP Oil Spill, Votevets, Clean Energy Legislation, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The latest on...

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Sam Stein

Fox Defends Michael Brown Interview: He's An 'Expert On Botched Responses'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fox News is defending itself from yet another wave of White House criticism, this time saying the decision to let former FEMA chief Michael Brown spea...

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Oil Spill Shillery

Arthur Goldwag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Levin, Michael Brown, Rush Limbaugh, Oil Spill, David Booth, Deepwater Horizon, Dana Perino, Tamar Tephi, North Korea, Sorcha Faal, Conspiracy Theory, Politics News
Arthur Goldwag

I wasn't suprised when Rush Limbaugh noted the suspicious timing of the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, occurring as it did on the eve of ...

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Michael Brown: Obama Wanted Oil Spill (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Bush-era FEMA head Michael Brown accused President Obama Monday of "playing politics" with the Gulf Coast oil spill, claiming that Obama waited for th...

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