Hurricane Katrina

Lessons from Katrina

By Richard Nathan
From newsweek.com
June 22nd, 2008

newsweek.com — The story of the Gulf Coast recovery is one of missed opportunities, intergovernmental collisions and a lack of will. Almost three years after Katrina, we can step back and ask, "Did America have the will to dramatically build back up New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast?" The answer is irrefutably no, it did not.

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McCain's Faulty Pork Radar

By Bill Scher
June 5, 2008

Calling a Katrina investigation "pork" raises the question: does McCain know the difference between wasteful spending and worthy investment?

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John McCain's Miserable Record on Hurricane Katrina

By Jonathan Stein
From motherjones.com
April 25th, 2008

motherjones.com — Lamenting the pace of recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, John McCain promised, "I want to assure you it will never happen again in this country." But McCain's record suggests that he was part of the problem, not the solution.

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Maybe You Don't Want McCain Taking Any Action

By Bill Scher
April 24, 2008

During McCain's "Time For Action" tour, he suggests he might "tear down" the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans

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Agency Is Under Pressure to Develop Disaster Housing

From nytimes.com
April 14th, 2008

nytimes.com — After the federal government announced in February that it would no longer use travel trailers to house the victims of future disasters, there was an initial sense of relief along the hurricane-scarred Gulf Coast.

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FEMA Limits Formaldehyde in Trailers

From ap.google.com
April 14th, 2008

ap.google.com — After resisting for years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is setting strict new limits on formaldehyde levels in the mobile homes it buys for disaster victims.

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LA State Supreme Court Takes Insurance Companies over Katrina Victims: Flood Damage is Excluded

From legalnewsline.com
April 9th, 2008

legalnewsline.com — The Louisiana Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled that homeowners insurance policies do not have to cover damages caused by levee breaches in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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CDC: FEMA Trailers Toxic

From msnbc.msn.com
February 15th, 2008

msnbc.msn.com — Two years after Katrina victims living in FEMA trailers started complaining of health problems, the Centers for Disease control says that formaldehyde gas levels in the trailers are —on average—five times higher than normal, and forty times higher in some homes. The agency urged FEMA to relocate residents before summer. Approximately 144,000 people remain in FEMA-provided trailers.

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Striving for Equality: An Honest Assessment

February 13th, 2008

As the Bush administration files an optimistic report to the United Nations on the state of equal opportunity in America, a parallel report by independent experts documents the significant ways in which our government has fallen short in ensuring equal opportunity. more »

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Quote of the Day: Alphonso Jackson edition

By Rick Perlstein
February 5, 2008

Photo from freedomrider.blogspot.comFilm buffs like me can't think of the acronym that signifies the Department of Housing and Urban Development without flashing on the classic 1963 Paul Newman flick of the same name—Hud. For as long as Alphonso Jackson has been HUD's cabinet secretary, the coincidence is not merely in the spelling.

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