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Rx for Catastrophe

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:55:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Jan. 23 (Review) - A book on disaster law and policy urges stronger federal intervention to shore up natural barriers and protect the most vulnerable members of the community. A photograph of a bayou in Louisiana. One law professor looks at disaster law and policy in the

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First, Bash the Teachers

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

FAIR - Sep. 10 - by Peter HartWriting on the Wall Street Journal editorial page (10/1/09) under the headline “How Teachers Unions Lost the Media,” two education writers praised the press for turning on teachers, showing a “new attitude” that is in sync with today’s politics: read more

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Who Gets to Rebuild New Orleans?

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - Aug. 31 () - “We’re dealing with local contractors on a daily basis and they’re not getting the work,” says Barry Kaufman of the Construction and General Laborers Union Local 689. “There are more out-of-state contractors in here than holes in cheese."

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Living in New Orleans After Katrina

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

truth-out.org - By Jordan Flaherty, Zeph Fish - Aug. 28 (Cartoon) - For those who have not lived in New Orleans, you have missed and incredible, glorious, vital city. A 70% African-American city where resistance to white supremacy supported a unique culture of vivid beauty.

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Scare the Hell out of Bankers: It's the Key to Recovery - New Republic

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By James Galbraith - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - The financial crisis in America isn't over. It's ongoing, it remains unresolved, and it stands in the way of full economic recovery. The cause, at the deepest level, was a breakdown in the rule of law. And it follows that the first step toward prosperity is to restore the rule of law in the financial sector.

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BP Oil Disaster Stalls Climate Bill

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Sarah Laskow - Jun. 12 (Opinion) - “There’s a dead dolphin on this beach,” Mother Jones‘ Mac McClelland, wrote yesterday in Louisiana. It’s one snapshot of the harm visited on the Gulf Coast by the BP oil spill. Back in Washington, the Senate climate bill, which would put the country on a path to cleaner energy consumption, is on [...] ...

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Why the Senate Climate Bill Is Doomed

Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - May. 15 - Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), though down one man, finally released their stab at climate legislation this week. One of the most crucial sections in the bill covers off-shore oil drilling, an issue that was supposed to help solve the tricky math of reaching 60 votes. But [...] ...

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The Earthquake That Triggered A Global Empathic Response

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jeremy Rifkin - Jan. 15 (Opinion) - Frantic tweets and videos have been seeping out of Haiti, pleading for help from the rest of the human race in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that leveled one of the poorest countries on the planet, spreading destruction and death. The

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Naomi Klein Issues Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Naomi Klein - Jan. 14 (Opinion) - Journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and addressed the crisis in Haiti: "We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy -- which is part natural, part unnatural -- must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our corporations. This is not conspiracy theory they have done it again and again."

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Outside Activism, Reconsidered

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - Apr. 11 (Interview) - The American Prospect asked six individuals working on post-Katrina recovery to discuss how their organizations are balancing rebuilding, commitment to community, and local autonomy with the desire of outside volunteers to participate in the recovery.

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Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Talking Points Memo - By Zachary Roth - Feb. 27 (Opinion) - Looks like the game is up. Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night -- about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims? Turns out it wasn't actually, you know, true. In the last few days, first Daily Kos, and then TPMmuckraker, raised serious questions about the story, based in part on the fact that no news reports we could find place Jindal in the affected area at the specific time at issue. Jindal had described being in the office of Sheriff Harry Lee "during Katrina," and hearing him yelling into the phone at a government bureaucrat who was refusing to let him send volunteer boats out to rescue stranded storm victims, because they didn't have the necessary permits. Jindal said he told Lee, "that's ridiculous," prompting Lee to tell the bureaucrat that the rescue effort would go ahead and he or she could arrest both Lee and Jindal. But now, a Jindal spokeswoman has admitted to Politico that in reality, Jindal overheard Lee talking about the episode to someone else by phone "days later." The spokeswoman said she thought Lee, who died in 2007, was being interviewed about the incident at the time.

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No Justice for the African-Americans Targeted by White Vigilantes After the Katrina Flooding

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Liliana Segura - Dec. 21 (Interview) - Journalist A.C. Thompson discusses his groundbreaking piece on the white men who roamed post-Katrina New Orleans shooting African Americans.

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New Orleans dodges disaster

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Kathryn Jezer-Morton - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - In the post-Gustav news conferences, there will be handshakes and good cheer about a planning and evacuation job well done. Republican presidential candidate John McCain is no doubt relieved that he can now make a presidential-sounding statement of satisfaction about the proceedings, and maybe rub away some of the stink of the Bush administration's legacy of failure during Katrina.

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Were There No Oil Spills From Katrina?

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Outside the Beltway - By Alex Knapp - Jun. 20 (Opinion) - In the comments to my latest post on domestic oil production, in which I continue my skepticism over the benefits to more domestic oil production, a number of claims were made in the comments that raised some interesting issues. So I thought it might be worthwhile if I went ahead and investigated some of these claims and presented the evidence. Some of these claims are going to require more research than others, so I’ll be spreading them out over several posts. For today, the claim I thought would be the easiest to look up was the continuous repeat of John McCain’s recent claim that there were no significant spills from offshore oil platforms due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Is this true?

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And Now for Some Random News about Nola

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:55:24 -0700

Balkinization - By Stephen Griffin - Sep. 09 (Opinion) - Several articles this weekend intersected and yielded some insights about New Orleans in the shadow of NYC's recovery after 9/11. There was a September 8 AP story comparing planning efforts in the two cities. NYC has had problems building on ground zero, but more success in the neighborhoods close by. Planning efforts in Nola started and stopped at least three times, hobbled by lack of funding. But the sort of funding available to NYC has been largely unknown in Nola. Today's NYT had an article on a neighborhood comeback near ground zero, below Chambers Street.

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A Graphic Portrayal of Katrina

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:30:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Zack Pelta-Heller - Aug. 31 (Review) - Source: American Prospect : In a powerful, multi-part Web comic, illustrator Josh Neufeld tells the stories of six people who lived through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

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What New Orleans Looks Like Two Years Later [VIDEO]

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:55:41 -0700

AlterNet - By Robert Greenwald - Aug. 29 (Advocacy) - It's been two years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region, and still there are tens of thousands of families without homes. 30,000 families are scattered across the country in FEMA apartments, 13,000 are in trailers, and hardly any of the 77,000 rental units destroyed in New Orleans have been rebuilt.

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We're all Oprah fodder in New Orleans

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:04:34 -0700

Salon - By Ken Foster - Aug. 29 (Opinion) - The media has become a fixture in the post-Katrina landscape of our city, just like vacant neighborhoods and the search-and-rescue graffiti tags beneath the new paint on every door. And after two years of living as if we were contestants on a long-running reality show, even the most unpretentious New Orleanians have grown media savvy.

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Hurricane Aid for condos in Tuscaloosa smells fishy

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:46:37 -0700

Mankato Free Press - Aug. 16 (Editorial) - It's not exactly a crime -- in fact, it's not a crime at all, legally -- that a sizable amount of federal aid that might have been spent on disadvantaged Katrina victims is going instead to investors lured by luxury condominiums near the University of Alabama football stadium. Builders are asking for up to $1 million for units designed to tickle the fancy of Crimson Tide fans, including necessities like Bear Bryant art and king-size bathtubs.

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Louisiana Justice: It Does Happen Sometimes

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:21:16 -0700

John Protevi's Blog - By John Protevi - Jul. 30 (Opinion) - Ridiculous blowhard state Attorney General Charles Foti, to divert attention from his failure to go after poor construction on the New Orleans levees, instead kept the cameras on himself by charging a doctor and several nurses with homicide in connection with deaths during Hurricane Katrina, two days before holding a fundraiser. Last week a New Orleans grand jury rejected the claim, refusing to indict Dr. Anna Pou (charges against the nurses had been previously dropped).

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Wiping The Sleep From Their Tired Little Eyes

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 22:39:34 -0800

Digby's Hullabaloo - By digby - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - I can understand why people may have initially thought that the guy just had to be smarter than he appeared in public because well.. nobody that dumb could possibly be president. It just defied reason. It wasn't long, however, before it became clear that the Republican Party had insulted our...

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