- 2006 News
- Weeks Two and Three : 5 and 12 September
- Week One : 1-4 September
- Week One : 31 August and Before
- Published Reports Before Katrina
Week Three : 12 - 18 September 2005
Katrina and Unintended ConsequencesYet another reminder that technological innovation and political decisions (like allowing construction in wetlands) all-too-often have painful unintended consequences. There is no free lunch. The only question is, who has to pay - and when.
12 September
Week Two : 5 - 11 September
Katrina Response: A TimelineThe Chicago Tribune has an excellent timeline of who did what when regarding Katrina...
11 September
FEMA: Then and Now
In May, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs held a hearing on FEMA's response Hurriance Frances that hit Florida in 2004. Evidence for the hearing rested on an audit conducted by DHS Acting Inspector General.
11 September
Little NEW Money For the Gulf
The latest money appropriated by Congress for Gulf Coast relief efforts -- which President Bush signed today -- is being reallocated from existing budgets. According to House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas (R-CA) ...
9 September
Bush Signs Additional Relief Bill
Today President Bush signed an additional relief bill for the disaster-struck Gulf Coast, which is costing $2 billion a day. The storm has radically changed the Republican agenda for this session of Congress, delaying plans to repeal the estate tax, massive tax and spending cuts...
9 September
CNN Wins Restraining Order Against FEMA Prohibitions
CNN's Anderson Cooper just anounced at the end of his 360 program breaking news that CNN won a temporary restraining order against FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security, which had barred all press from photographing or witnessing the recovery of the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims.
9 September - From US Liberal Politics
"Worse Than Iraq"
Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Natalie Pompilio wrote these words last week in an e-mail to friends and family about her experience covering the post-hurricane disaster that ...
8 September
Halliburton Lands Katrina Contracts, Stock Rises to One-Year High
"Halliburton's stock hit a fifty-two-week high, presumably because Dick Cheney's former colleagues may reap the benefits of this tragedy securing government contracts to rebuild the Gulf Coast " reports The Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel at her blog.
8 September - From US Liberal Politics
The Problem That Everyone Knew Existed
Belying the President's words to the effect that no none could have anticipated the devastation that is New Orleans today, news reports and analyses paint ...
6 September
NOLA : An Economic Centerpiece
Talk to a farmer in the upper midwest about grain harvest, sales, transportation. Chances are, that farmer is almost as concerned about New Orleans as ...
6 September
Jog Around the Blogosphere: Eloquence & Action on Post-Hurricane Katrina
From the respected Bob Schieffer of CBS News, "There is no purpose for government except to improve the lives of its citizens......As the floodwaters rose, local officials in New Orleans ordered the city evacuated. They might as well have told their citizens to fly to the moon.
6 September - From US Liberal Politics
- 2006 News
- Weeks Two and Three : 5 and 12 September
- Week One : 1-4 September
- Week One : 31 August and Before
- Published Reports Before Katrina