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 [...]

Posted on November 21st, 2009 by Sherri
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Just before Gustav hammered us, Rachel Maddow was bluntly vocal and is still morally outraged about the Republicans naming their VP pick on the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Watch the video clip from the DNC: The Republicans have failed America, period. What about the other infrastructure failures that continue to plague America? Our infrastructure [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Sherri
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