I just ran across an interesting article from 2008 on the Think New Orleans blog entitled Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Army Corps of Engineers Building Levees Out of Newspaper
It’s a fascinating and damning story of “maintenance and repair” of the New Orleans levee system after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. I encourage you to read the [...]

Posted on November 21st, 2009 by Sherri
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On September 1, Rachel Maddow did an extensive interview with the first Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge. The total interview was 31 minutes long and discussed Mr. Ridge’s newly published book, The Test of Our Times.
The second segment of the interview focused on the Department of Homeland Security and how much blame it [...]

Posted on September 6th, 2009 by Sherri
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