Katrina & New Orleans

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[03/15/2006] DynCorp May Replace Cops in St. Bernard Parish
It’s a good thing I don’t live in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. If I did, I’d refuse to accept the authority of DynCorp, the renta-cop and mercenary corporation that may soon replace the police in the storm-ravaged parish. » More

[03/06/2006] AP clarifies what Bush was told about levees
We don\'t normally work on the weekends, but the Associated Press has released a \"clarification\" of its headline-grabbing report earlier this week and we wanted to get it out as soon as we could. » More

[03/02/2006] Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina
TIn dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans\' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage. » More

[02/24/2006] Safety of Post-Hurricane Sludge Is Disputed
Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina deposited arsenic, lead and petrochemical compounds across greater New Orleans in amounts that are potentially dangerous to human health despite federal and state assurances that the sludge is safe, according to a new study based on Environmental Protection Agency data. » More

[02/23/2006] Groups respond to NPR report hospital euthanized Katrina patients
Anti-euthanasia groups are responding to National Public Radio reports claiming that New Orleans hospitals gave patients lethal doses of pain killers during Hurricane Katrina. » More

[02/14/2006] Government-Wide Katrina Failings
Rampant failures at all levels of government accounted for the poor response to Hurricane Katrina, a House investigation concludes. » More

[12/01/2005] Wireless expert blasts New Orleans plan
A strong advocate of free wireless networks believes, nevertheless, Mayor Ray Nagin\'s plan for New Orleans is a \"reckless\" use of government funds in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. » More

[11/30/2005] Big Easy launches free wireless system
To help boost its stalled economy, hurricane-ravaged New Orleans is offering the nation\'s first free wireless Internet network owned and run by a major city. » More

[11/16/2005] Investigations Into La. Levee Breaks Mount
A federal prosecutor said Thursday he\'s pursuing tips about corruption relating to the building and maintenance of levees that broke during Hurricane Katrina. » More

[11/07/2005] CITRIS: Military--industrial complex lies about levees\' controlled demolition
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[11/04/2005] Hospital Claims Katrina Evacuee\'s Newborn Tested Positive For Drugs
A newborn was reunited with her family Monday night after the state took custody of the baby and her older brother after her urine tested positive for marijuana, KPRC Local 2 reported. » More

[11/04/2005] Researchers Say Levees Had Design Flaws
The engineers who designed the floodwalls that collapsed during Hurricane Katrina did not fully consider the porousness of the Louisiana soil or make other calculations that would have pointed to the need for stronger levees with deeper pilings and wider bases, researchers say. » More

[11/01/2005] Thousands of evacuees face eviction
Two months after Hurricane Katrina displaced more than 1 million people, problems with federal housing aid threaten to spawn a new wave of homelessness. » More

[10/25/2005] Boortz suggested that Katrina victim turn to prostitution
Neal Boortz suggested that a victim of Hurricane Katrina currently housed in an Atlanta hotel consider prostitution. » More

[10/20/2005] FEMA e-mails document disconnect on Katrina
A FEMA insider who was former director Michael Brown\'s \"eyes and ears\" in New Orleans will break ranks and tell Senate investigators Thursday that he repeatedly tried to sound the alarm about broken levees and other ominous developments in the city, but officials at all levels failed to act decisively. » More

[10/17/2005] Brits sent 400,000 meals but U.S. didn\'t use them
In the early days of September, as military helicopters plucked desperate New Orleanians from rooftops and Red Cross shelters swelled with the displaced, nearly 400,000 packaged meals landed on a tarmac at Little Rock Air Force Base and were whisked by tractor-trailer to Louisiana. » More

[10/14/2005] FEMA goon-cops walked away from NO beating
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[10/13/2005] Halliburton awarded another $33 million contract for Katrina work
The Arlington-based Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, was awarded a $33.6 million contract Sept. 30 for emergency reconstruction of military bases in the wake of Hurricane Katrina » More

[10/13/2005] Abuse, Forced Labor Rampant in New Orleans Justice System
The videotaped beating of a New Orleans resident offers but a small sample of the widespread brutality, deprivation and railroading that have come to characterize the city’s response to alleged crimes. » More

[10/13/2005] $11 Million a Day Spent on Hotels for Storm Relief
Straining to meet President Bush\'s mid-October deadline to clear out shelters, the federal government has moved hundreds of thousands of evacuees from Hurricane Katrina into hotel rooms at a cost of about $11 million a night » More

[10/10/2005] Airplanes to spray for mosquitoes in New Orleans
The U-S Public Health Service says C-130 planes from the Ohio Air National Guard will spray the chemical Naled to control mosquitoes and flies in the New Orleans area. » More

[10/10/2005] Halliburton, Cheney, Right in the money with Katrina cleanup
You know the feeling when you wake up on Christmas Day, and you run downstairs and there is a big pile of gifts with your name on them? That must have been how Vice President Dick Cheney felt when he woke up the morning after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the Gulf Coast.\n » More

[10/10/2005] Final NATO plane with hurricane assistance lands
The twelfth and final NATO airplane bringing emergency assistance for the hurricane-ravaged southern United States landed on Sunday, the US State Department said Tuesday. » More

[10/10/2005] New Orleans police plead not guilty
Three New Orleans police officers pleaded not guilty to punching a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication and grabbing and shoving an AP Television News producer who helped capture the confrontation on tape. » More

[10/10/2005] New Orleans to lay off 3,000 workers
New Orleans will lay off 3,000 city workers -- about half the workforce -- because of financial constraints caused by Hurricane Katrina, says Mayor Ray Nagin... » More

[10/08/2005] Camp Katrina: FEMA\'s Trailer Town
FEMA\'s solution to rampant homelessness is haul in trailers and stack them on top of one another. » More

[10/07/2005] Levees were \'heaved\' upward from below
Do you know what can heave the ground over and upwards 8 feet? Military-grade explosives for one. » More

[10/06/2005] Gulf Firms Losing Cleanup Contracts
Companies outside the three states most affected by Hurricane Katrina have received more than 90 percent of the money from prime federal contracts for recovery and reconstruction of the Gulf Coast, according to an analysis of available government data. » More

[02/11/2003] Nagin announces major overhaul of City Hall
[T]he Nagin administration announced today a City Hall reorganization plan that will bring city public safety agencies under the newly created Department of Homeland Security, the administration announced today. » More