Katrina Coverage
Analyzing the news reports and politics of the New Orleans hurricane.
March 2006
20:
What the WaPo isn't telling you about multilevel contracting
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19:
College students clean up New Orleans
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16:
New Orleans' upcoming crime problem
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09:
Pictures of FEMA's wasted trailers
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04:
"Katrina: What went right"
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04:
Michael Brown: Bush knew levees could breach; Chertoff should quit
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03:
AP clarifies Bush flooding/overtopping video
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02:
Blanco said levees were safe (Aug 29 at noon)
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01:
Bush admin knew levees could fail
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01:
Ray Nagin at Mardi Gras picture
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01:
Jeb Bush involved in Carnival Cruise Lines issue
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February 2006
28:
Mardi Gras rebounds; Nagin wears camo
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28:
Bush realized Katrina response faulty when saw people "screaming for help"
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27:
Poll: Only 16% are angry about Gulf Coast reconstruction
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23:
"White House Cites Katrina Response Failures"
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20:
Popular Mechanics "debunks" Katrina myths
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19:
ACE screwed on blue tarp contracts
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16:
"Katrina Records Contain A Gap"
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12:
"Katrina Death Toll May Never Be Known"
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12:
CHP officers shot alligator(s), will be fired
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11:
FEMA aid fraud: 40% might be duplicates
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11:
More on Michael Brown's testimony
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10:
"Brown Asserts He Alerted White House Quickly on Katrina"
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09:
Agencies knew about levee breaks within hours after landfall
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09:
Is Michael Brown free to tell all?
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09:
"Overtopping claim won't hold water, experts say"
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08:
"Their Levees vs. Our Levees"
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07:
"Katrina Index: Tracking Variables of Post-Katrina Reconstruction"
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07:
Hillary Clinton on the vast White House conspiracy to keep Dems out of LA
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07:
Ray Nagin seeks foreign aid; "The king of Jordan can take the Lower Ninth Ward"
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06:
Caption this Kathleen Blanco picture
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06:
Al Ater: Courts may take over election if law unchanged
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06:
"Levee tests gnaw at termite expert"
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05:
"Mistake copying numbers may have contributed to levee failure"
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05:
FEMA putting smily face on trailer parks?
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05:
Blanco's special session agenda
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05:
Kathleen Blanco's $500,000 remodeling job
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04:
There's a 20-point plan to destroy Black New Orleans?
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01:
"Women of the Storm" want more money for New Orleans
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January 2006
30:
FEMA failed to use all available resources
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29:
Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu running for New Orleans Mayor
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27:
"Study Says 80% of New Orleans Blacks May Not Return"
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25:
Bush admin dragging feet on congressional Katrina probe?
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25:
Grand Jury to probe New Orleans Police, but...
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25:
The Ray Nagin "Chocolate City" T-Shirt Craze!
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24:
"White House Got Early Warning on Katrina"; local officials get pass
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20:
Mayor "Chocolate City" commended
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18:
"More Than 3,200 Still Missing From Katrina"
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17:
Washington Post confused over various Nagin remarks
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17:
Nagin: "chocolate" is dark chocolate + white milk
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16:
Ray Nagin promises a majority African-American "chocolate New Orleans"
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13:
Bush promotes New Orleans in own unique way; doesn't commit to Category 5 levees
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11:
Bring New Orleans Back releases rebuilding blueprint
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05:
Conservative Republican proposes massive government rebuilding plan
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December 2005
31:
"Jefferson Parish will keep workers at pumps in future"
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31:
Top Bushism of 2005: "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job"
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31:
Sex offender diaspora: 2000 evacuees in 30 states
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ACLU opposed background checks on evacuees
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DHS official opposed background checks on evacuees
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30:
ACE discovered engineering mistakes in 1990, but did nothing
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30:
New Orleans Saints to return for 2006
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11/16: Kenyon stops collecting bodies; history of their involvement
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DHS Inspector General faults management flaws for Katrina response
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25:
Community activists charge racism before Congress, Part 2
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24:
"Bush-Bashing Black Charity Sits on Katrina Cash"
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Jeff Franks / Reuters offers anti-American, pro-illegal immigration propaganda
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24:
New Orleans might raze over 43,000 homes
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23:
Turf wars, Chertoff, Ridge to blame for FEMA woes and not Michael Brown?
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22:
CNN, others buy amateur footage; amateur buys building materials
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22:
ACE downplays lowered Katrina category
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22:
Senate approves additional $29 billion bill for relief, rebuilding
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21:
"Hurricane Katrina Hit As Category 3, Not 4"
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21:
AP: Katrina was "Top Story of 2005"
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21:
"Latino ‘Slaves’ Clean Up After Katrina"
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21:
Remaindered ABC interview with Kathleen Blanco
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21:
"In Mississippi, Canvas Cities Rise Amid Hurricane's Rubble"
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21:
NYT on illegal aliens doing rebuilding jobs
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20:
NBC discovers racism in New Orleans. Again!
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20:
Paul at Wizbang Blog deleted my comment; can you trust what you read there?
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19:
USA Today: CBD, "sliver by the river", "island" of normalcy
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18:
"Katrina Killed Across Class Lines"
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17:
Washington Post supports illegal aliens taking jobs from American hurricane victims
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17:
New levees plan won't protect SBP, Lower Ninth, N.O. East
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17:
Lefties demand Category 5 protection for New Orleans
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17:
Holy pantsuit! Mary Landrieu welcomes Hillary Clinton to Louisiana
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17:
Red Cross racist? Yes, if you believe a far-leftie illegal immigration supporter
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16:
DemocracyNow shocked by effects of supporting massive illegal immigration
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16:
The Gretna Bridge socialists are back!
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14:
Red Cross president quits, didn't get along with board
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14:
Floodwalls seem to have been built to ACE specifications
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14:
"Katrina Death Stats Contradict Racial Complaints"
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14:
Disaster trip for tourists
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14:
Downers decry Mardi Gras, boosting civic pride, tourism income
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13:
St. Bernard Parish: people living in cars, barns, tents
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13:
Lakeview residents place ad in Roll Call demanding stronger levees
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13:
"Ideological Hurricane"
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13:
Aides worried over Blanco's image
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13:
Brian Williams interviews George Bush
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12:
Kathleen Blanco is MOVING MOUNTAINS
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12:
NPR still covering New Orleans, just not well
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12:
FEMA still paying for 42,000 hotel rooms
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12:
Trend: stories about Bush losing interest in New Orleans
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11:
NYT: "Death of an American City"
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10:
Katrina, the "man-made disaster"
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09:
Krugman on Bush: "The Promiser in Chief"
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09:
"Dredging could have contributed to levee failure"
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09:
FEMA going to court over housing deadline
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09:
Comment with historical background
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09:
Aug 31: Blanco stopped looking for buses
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08:
"Bush's Attention Wanders From Katrina as Reconstruction Lags"
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08:
Haley Barbour niece-in-law gets million dollar contract
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06:
Community activists charge racism before Congress, but...
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06:
Karl Rove wanted Blanco to federalize the New Orleans evacuation
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04:
"Rowboat Federalism: The Politics of U.S. Disaster Relief"
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04:
Nagin pleads with residents to return
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04:
Levee breach, flooding timeline: who knew what when?
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04:
Cold weather camping advice from Gulf Coast News
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04:
Louisiana Dems: "regrouping" or trying to rig elections?
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04:
Sen. Mary Landrieu's in-your-face approach
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04:
Louisiana releases 100,000 pages of Katrina documents
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03:
Kerry Sanders of NBC downplays ACE culpability
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November 2005
30:
New Orleans flooding caused by Army Corps of Engineers' bad design?
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29:
Free Wireless WiFi in New Orleans
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27:
Newsweek on modern-day "slavery" in New Orleans
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26:
WSJ, Shearer, TP on the Orleans Levee Board's failings
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25:
WSJ thankful for wrecked New Orleans Public School system
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23:
Slate on Katrina Cough
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Andy Kopplin on Tim Kusky
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22:
HuffPost eats it own: Harry Shearer attacked for looking in bright side
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21:
Little damage in Jackson, lots of damage payouts
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21:
"Humid Beings" forum
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20:
ACLU sues over jail conditions
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20:
"New Orleans Today: It's Worse Than You Think"
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20:
60 Minutes: "New Orleans is Sinking"
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Can't see rebuilding contracts because of "national security"
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20:
List of Katrina contracts
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20:
"Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch"
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19:
Salon discovers the worker abuse that "liberals" support
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18:
PBS's NOW fully supports illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs from American workers
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18:
Nagin wants housing aid
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17:
Houston mayor upset over FEMA Dec. 1 housing deadline
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17:
Don King brings turkeys to Baton Rouge
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17:
Alaska keeps $452 million to spend as wishes
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17:
New Orleans now swimming in mold
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16:
NOLA: Don't forget us, and send money while you're at it
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16:
New Orleans battling against mold
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16:
"Paddling One’s Own Canoe"
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16:
LA legislators spent $150,000 for travel expenses, per-diem
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16:
Blanco sued over budget cuts; now stands accused of race baiting
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16:
Blanco makes Time Magazine's "Top Three Worst Governors" list
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16:
Chirac, LeMonde's snarky comments remembered, compared
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16:
BR officers didn't break unspecified laws
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15:
Honduras to help their citizens who've settled in the U.S.
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15:
FEMA: No more hotel rooms after Dec. 1
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15:
2005 Person of the Year: Katrina? Nobodies say yes
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14:
Rep. Gary Smith's father, uncle get $108 million FEMA contract
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14:
"Unanswered stuff" at the St. Gabriel morgue
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14:
"New Orleans Levee Break(s) Before and After"
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14:
NOPD phantom cops: real or fiction?
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14:
"Supply Chain: How Wal-Mart Beat Feds to New Orleans"
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14:
Mayor, sheriff, City Council election details troubling
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13:
Floodwall pilings seven feet shorter than Army Corps of Engineers said
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13:
WaPo on NO's history of poverty and corruption
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13:
Victims file class action suit against FEMA
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13:
Big-time hauls being looted in St. Bernard Parish
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13:
Far left: Public housing being racially cleansed, etc.
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13:
What did Amelia Davis say about Ray Nagin?
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12:
Rush Limbaugh: "the Katrina Media"; tries, fails to dismiss Bush mishandling
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12:
22 dead on a rope in SBP? Nope, debunked
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12:
DC disfavoring Category 5 protection
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12:
Four no-bid contracts to be re-bid: in February, when almost done
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11:
Eddie Compass now hotel security consultant
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11:
Levee Board attorney suspended just before discussing Jim Huey
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11:
Brownie no longer doing heckuva job
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11:
"President Bush, Mayor Nagin Meet To Discuss Rebuilding Efforts"
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11:
"Floodwalls in Swampy New Orleans 'Like Putting Bricks on Jell-O'"
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11:
"Criminal Probe Set for New Orleans Levees"
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10:
Davis might subpoena WH, DHS, HHS, state documents
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09:
City park wants cleanup workers living in tent cities to pay rent
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09:
2008 Democratic convention in New Orleans?
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09:
Dueling commissions; will NO get its share of money?
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09:
"Blanco budget plan leaves legislators cold"
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09:
Nagin to residents: Help Entergy get federal money
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09:
More on Mississippi's suit against insurance companies
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08:
"New Orleans Levee Failure Assessment - Part V"
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08:
Broussard freely commandeered stuff
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08:
Design, planning pros to meet; Blanco's, Nagin's dueling commissions
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08:
"Post-hurricane cuts run deep, Governor chops $431 million in spending"
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08:
" La. lawmakers tackling costly hurricane relief issues budget crisis in special session"
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08:
Looters left surprises behind in trendy stores; "liberals" explain
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07:
Sen. Ted Stevens builds bridge to New Orleans' heart
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07:
Entergy: no timetable for some neighborhoods
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07:
"March demands accountability of Gretna police action" (the bridge is back!)
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07:
Lefties cry about illegal aliens getting ripped off, while supporting it happening
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07:
Halliburton Watch: "subcontractor hires illegal immigrants for Katrina work"
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07:
"Katrina Cleanup Contracts Continue for KBR"
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06:
NOLA: Kathleen Blanco to the rescue?
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06:
AP discovers scandal: illegal aliens getting ripped off
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06:
House Republican Study Committee and their "Pro-Free-Market Ideas"
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05:
Could gates, not floodwalls, have blocked storm surge?
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05:
NCLR, NUL, NAACP, AAJC, and LCCR confused over words "Mexican" and "American"
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05:
Does Jason Zengerle support American workers?
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05:
NYT on illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs
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05:
Katrina Cough vs. 9/11 pulmonary disease
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05:
Michael Martinez, the Chicago Tribune, and illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs
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05:
Medea Benjamin: "Katrina Survivors are Losing the Battle to Return Home"
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04:
Ninth Ward Evictions: "Why are They Making New Orleans a Ghost Town?"
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04:
"New Orleans evictions skyrocketing"
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04:
San Antonio Saints update
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04:
FEMA wants $3.7 billion from Louisiana for services rendered
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04:
Nagin: NO not bankrupt, has $204 million shortfall, needs federal loan
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04:
TX Gov. Perry: FEMA housing policy failing evacuees
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04:
Dick Morris: Mary Landrieu sidetracked money for levees
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04:
National Guard colonel: no murders in Superdome
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04:
"Instant Karma" to be flicked in Louisiana
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03:
"Katrina Cough" due to mold, dust
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03:
Charlie Melancon and Michael Brown's emails
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03:
House Panel complains administration dragging feet on document request
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03:
Several tipsters: shortcuts used in building levees
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03:
Are roofing, school-building companies making windfall profits?
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03:
Why wasn't the "Catastrophic Incident Supplement" completed?
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03:
Brownie, you're a "fashion god"
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03:
Carnival Cruise Lines defends FEMA contract
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02:
"Engineers Fear Levee Repairs Not Enough"
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02:
UC Berkeley: " Investigators release preliminary findings of levee failures at Senate hearing"
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01:
Rebuilding czar: FDIC Chairman Donald Powell
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NewsHour report on New Orleans schools
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01:
120,000 in Mississippi filed unemployment claims
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01:
Mississippi to get by with $3 billion less
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01:
A new Convention Center report
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01:
Prince Charles to visit New Orleans
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"Hurricane Katrina funding...for Alaska"
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October 2005
31:
"U.S. Military Wants to Own the Weather"
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HuffPost: "Don't Declare War on Hurricane Victims"
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UN busybody comments on New Orleans poverty
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Legal system still struggling
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30:
51 NOPD cops fired; 240 "missing": phantom cops?
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30:
Jackson, Sharpton, AFLCIO complain about "low-wage workers" at rally
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29:
Michael Barone: "After Katrina and Scooter, whither the Bush administration?"
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"Louisiana politics colorful, extremely corrupt"
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29:
"Who’s Killing New Orleans?"
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29:
Blanco wants more control over levee boards
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29:
MREs being sold on eBay
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28:
Nearly $1 billion in state tax income lost since Katrina
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28:
AG Foti: fmr. Levee Board president Jim Huey broke law
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Public hospitals: repair for $375 million, replace for $567 million
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28:
Blanco addresses Louisiana Recovery Authority, says nothing of note
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28:
Who delayed body collection: Blanco, FEMA, or Kenyon?
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28:
Nagin: NO to be larger; only enough cash til March
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28:
Nagin's first townhall meeting
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"New Orleans to re-examine its pump station policies"
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27:
Public hospital system on verge of financial collapse
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27:
Head of New Orleans' levee board [Jim Huey] quits
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27:
"Ministers displeased with lack of plan to bring N.O. residents back"
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27:
AP mentions illegal aliens doing rebuilding in negative sense
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27:
"Labor's Hurricane George"
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27:
Chertoff defends Brownie still doing heckuva job
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27:
Eased out of the Big Easy
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26:
AFL-CIO: "Workers Win Fair Wages as Bush Backs off Davis-Bacon Suspension"
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26:
Teddy Kennedy introduces "Rebuild with Respect Act"
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26:
Dems concerned about their voters
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26:
Firm hired ex-Corps head before winning deal
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26:
Michael Brown wanted to resign... before Katrina
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26:
Feds to locals: pay premium if don't use ACE to contract debris removal
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26:
Dallas PD decline employing former NOPD cops
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Blanco's internal documents might not be released until December
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25:
MSM, Columbia J-School dean on NOLA's debunking story
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25:
WSJ: Most federal aid not yet spent
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25:
More on the illegal aliens at Belle Chasse Naval Air Station
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25:
Different Louisiana leader wants different billions
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25:
Peggy Wilson for mayor?
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25:
Evictions to begin in New Orleans
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25:
"Local officials fear tax break fallout"
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25:
"New Orleans Levee Failure Assessment"
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MRGO as the "express lane": Part 2
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24:
Ninth Ward flooded... again
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Guns now allowed at FEMA Cities
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Anti-pork bill fails
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24:
Deaths occured throughout NO
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24:
NOLA: "Nagin gets mixed reviews"
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Louisiana leaders reject LA's corrupt reputation; play tu quoque
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Will Nagin run again? Will there be a strong challenger?
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2TheAdvocate's timeline
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23:
More on the FEMA, DOT buses
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23:
Nagin moved buses to higher ground?
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23:
School bus roundup
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"Usufruct" or an unconstitutional property grab?
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23:
CBS News report on Bahamonde's testimony
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One-quarter of NO houses to be demolished
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DUmmies ahead of Dims on illegal aliens doing rebuilding jobs
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ACE discounts Aug 29 levee break report
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Bahamonde: saw levee break on Aug 29; Chertoff: didn't learn until Aug 30
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23:
Ice on the move again: from Maine to Florida for Wilma
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22:
Townsend: feds failed to prepare adequately
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22:
Bush making conspiracy theories come true; Spike Lee movie
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Allstate to reduce Gulf Coast exposure
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22:
San Antonio Saints? Los Angeles Sinners?
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22:
The 10 biggest FEMA contracts, and the contractors' connections
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22:
Marty Bahamonde's testimony
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21:
How Cuba prepares for hurricanes
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21:
Brownie still doing a heckuva job
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21:
Cut drug war spending to generate Katrina cash?
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21:
Louisiana spending $45 million on unnecessary projects?
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21:
Jeb Bush opposes increased federal responsibilites
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21:
Illegal aliens taking American jobs, working in unsafe conditions
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21:
Nearly two months later, still no housing plan
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21:
Marty Bahamonde, Michael Brown, FEMA emails
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21:
FEMA overpayments to Katrina victims: $174 million
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21:
Rumsfeld wants own levee probe
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21:
Kanye West unwelcomed by U. Florida College Republicans
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Henry Waxman: are we overpaying Carnival Cruise Lines?
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20:
"Great American Nero"
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20:
More Mary Landrieu and alleged illegal aliens employed by Halliburton subcontractor
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PBS Audio: Engineering and funding regarding the levees, floodwalls
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Did a Halliburton subcontractor hire illegal aliens to work on a Navy base?
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20:
Is Ruben Navarrette Jr. an American?
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FEMA official blames Brown
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Illegal aliens making good money taking jobs from hurricane victims
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Cynthia McKinney accuses administration of negligent homicide
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20:
Mississippi still cleaning up almost two months later
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"Liberalism" comes to Cape Cod
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U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce supports illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs
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Nagin wants to keep the Saints
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Instapundit-approved debunking post
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Chertoff defends actions
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19:
Only 200,000 in hotels, not 600,000 like FEMA said
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18:
DC Mardi Gras Ball Cancelled
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"Tear Down the Ninth Ward"
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18:
Will Wilma force a new evacuation?
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18:
Cape Cod evacuees spending money on strippers, booze
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18:
FEMA internal memos not as damning as you might think
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Fighters, not First Responders
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17:
Fmr. Levee Board Prez: New Orleans Corrupt 'Down to the Bone'
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Der Spiegel offers jazz, racism
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17:
LAT on what happens when the president won't govern
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17:
Blanco creates Louisiana Recovery Authority
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17:
Nagin has closed-door meeting with evacuees... in different parish
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17:
Senate wants answers from Blanco, Nagin
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Jefferson Parish pump operators wanted to stay
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17:
Storm surge was up to 28' in Mississippi
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Bush's Gulf Opportunity Zone doubted
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ACE redesigns floodwalls to be stronger
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Blanco to FEMA: use local contractors
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16:
State Dep't giving away donated foreign MREs
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel unclear on concept of Americans rebuilding Gulf Coast
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Blanco order keeps 100s out of available housing
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16:
Calypso Louie Finally Explains Rita X!
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16:
Farrakhan charges America with criminal neglect
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16:
Is the NOPD prepared for returnees? National Guard, active duty figures.
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Jesse Jackson urges people to direct their Katrina frustrations into activism
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The feds pay retail! Millions of dollars involved
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Reason for levee failure discovered?
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15:
Levees, floodwalls, seepage, heaving, sand boils background info
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15:
Bexar County (Texas) Dems trying to register evacuees
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Broussard trying to fire head of E. Jeff Levee District
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Time interviews Farrakhan
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Sen. Larry Craig: fraud part of Louisiana's culture
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Nagin defends gaming; "I see a state in crisis"; "not feeling very regional right now"; thousands still missing
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Aaron Broussard, the pump operators, the real problem, and his reputation
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AFL-CIO, Jesse Jackson to demand jobs, justice October 29
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"Katrina and the Price of Panic"
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15:
Criminal sheriff to Nagin: pay my bill!
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10/5: Bubba visits, feels peoples' pain
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14:
"Final solution" advocated at Million Man March Katrina forum on CSPAN
(2)
14:
Gary Hart on government
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14:
50,000 New Orleans households could leave area
(0)
14:
More on Davis-Bacon
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14:
"Will New Orleans abandon its poor?"
(0)
14:
"Storms Alter Louisiana Politics"
(0)
14:
$11 million per day on hotels?
(0)
14:
Bush popularity plunges; 2% among blacks
(1)
14:
"Wading Toward Home"
(1)
14:
Architects, planners on rebuilding the Gulf
(0)
14:
Military miscommunication hampered response
(0)
13:
Task Force ends; Honore always proposed as "dual hatted"
(0)
13:
Jackson, ACE on the Industrial Canal and the barge
(0)
13:
Killer dolphins located in Lake Pontchartrain?
(0)
13:
Vitter, others oppose "FEMA Cities"
(0)
13:
Doctor's personal accounts
(0)
13:
Nagin tours shelters, urges return
(0)
13:
NPR: "Hurricane Katrina Prompts Growth in Gun Ownership
(0)
13:
Did Memorial Medical Center doctors euthanize patients?
(0)
13:
"Camp Amtrak" - Abuse, Forced Labor in New Orleans?
(0)
13:
The Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims Act
(0)
13:
Spike Lee films "When the Levee Broke"
(6)
13:
Update on Mississippi's missing
(1)
13:
New Orleans floodwater is not “toxic soup”
(0)
12:
Rebuilding czar considered
(0)
12:
GOP's Ken Mehlman defends outreach to blacks; Howard Dean baits
(0)
12:
S.F. Chronicle pimps illegal laborers working in unsafe conditions
(0)
12:
"NOPD officers hide IDs while chasing off charity workers"
(0)
12:
Auditing federal contracts difficult; no central database
(0)
12:
"Rebuilding a Police Department"
(0)
12:
City had evac plan, didn't put in place
(1)
12:
Franklin Graham on trailers, rebuilding
(0)
12:
Greens: New Orleans becoming "Iraqified"
(0)
12:
"FEMA Restricts Evacuee Data, Citing Privacy"
(0)
12:
"Cuts in Energy Spending May Prove Elusive"
(0)
12:
Beeb tries for Brown, FEMA scoop and fails
(0)
12:
"Liberal" hopes to extend welfare state dashed
(0)
12:
Thousands still missing?
(0)
11:
A discussion of the IT snafus
(0)
11:
"Bush Leaves Louisiana After Spirit-Lifting Trip"
(0)
11:
Mary Landrieu can't get enough... money
(0)
11:
"Lawmakers Put Stringent Conditions on Federal Relief Loans"
(0)
11:
Blanco blocks Nagin gambling plan
(0)
11:
Don't bring your guns to FEMA City
(0)
11:
Will the tourists come back?
(0)
11:
"Gulf Coast job boom blooms in wake of Hurricane Katrina"
(0)
11:
Rooftop rescues took higher priority than hospitals
(0)
11:
AP has rundown of NOPD condition, situation
(0)
11:
10/10: Looting continuing? Will Warren Riley work it out?
(0)
11:
Katrina’s damage to LA agriculture tops $3 billion
(0)
11:
Felled timber worth billions
(0)
10:
Is the Los Angeles Times a Mexican newspaper?
(0)
10:
"Jesse Jackson says Bush trying to remake Louisiana politics"
(0)
10:
AP: Bush visits, eats high on hog, sleeps well
(0)
10:
More on the Pelican Commission, pork, and lobbyists
(0)
10:
Who's right about the reports of violence?
(0)
10:
NOPD cops plead not guilty in beating matter; UPDATED
(0)
10:
NBC on the many Blanco mistakes
(1)
10:
The Katrina brain drain
(0)
10:
"US labor market weathers Katrina"
(0)
10:
NO Council questions Nagin's casino plans
(0)
10:
New Orleans had contracts with bus companies to do evacuations?
(0)
10:
The James Lee Witt, Innovative Emergency Management, Hurricane Pam axis
(0)
09:
NYT: James Lee Witt still cleaning up
(0)
09:
9/3: Blanco hires James Lee Witt
(0)
09:
War, FEMA "indecent", topless protesters charge
(0)
09:
NYT on New Orleans' history of corruption
(0)
09:
AP pics NOPD beating; photog gets warned off
(2)
09:
"Scattered in a Storm's Wake and Caught in a Clash of Cultures"
(0)
09:
Indiana Sec of State: rebuilding local's responsibility
(0)
09:
FEMA chief visits evacuee trailer park
(0)
09:
Odd: death toll tops 1000; "body bag buying binge" recounted
(0)
09:
GAS Act of 2005: a post-Katrina sop to oil companies?
(0)
09:
Rebuilding the Mississippi Gulf: Architects Respond
(0)
08:
NBC: "In New Orleans, the working class disappears"
(1)
08:
Are evacuees crime-bearers?
(0)
08:
Sites of interest
(0)
08:
New Orleans jobs and federal funding scandal
(2)
08:
150 more buses found in Ninth Ward
(0)
08:
Engineers blame shifting barriers, not overtopping
(0)
08:
Was Katrina only Cat 3 when it came ashore? Part 2
(0)
08:
The "levees" vs. "floodwalls" distinction
(0)
08:
The "Rebuild New Orleans and Pay Workers a Fair Wage" petition
(0)
08:
Haley Barbour on FEMA, Louisiana aid package
(0)
07:
National Guardsman supports Posse Comitatus
(0)
07:
Nagin supports gaming zone
(0)
07:
NOPD cops took Cadillacs from dealership?
(0)
07:
Unemployment aid provided, Medicaid aid not
(0)
07:
FEMA to re-bid $400 million in contracts; NYT bias
(0)
07:
Ray Nagin, man of many companies
(0)
07:
Is EPA downplaying health risks?
(0)
07:
Conyers supporting socialists' Gretna bridge tale
(0)
07:
Cost might be just $150 billion. Whoo!
(0)
07:
Mineta blames FEMA; says had buses, train to evacuate
(0)
07:
ACLU to sue over jail conditions
(0)
07:
NO might release hundreds of prisoners
(0)
07:
Disadvantaged business wins minor contract
(0)
06:
Scientific American on possible flooding
(0)
06:
Jesse Jackson leading jobs caravan to New Orleans
(0)
06:
NO's flood protection to return to normal by 2006
(0)
06:
National Guard, NOPD scanner logs, vidcams, InterDictor, etc.
(0)
06:
"FEMA, Alaskan Company Shortchanges Mississippi"
(0)
06:
Hilton asking evacuees to leave
(0)
06:
" Computer systems at FEMA were lacking in 2004, says IG"
(0)
06:
"Refugees ordered out of shelters by Oct. 15"
(2)
06:
Civilians forbidden from 17th Street Canal; pictures
(0)
06:
"Financial Crisis Deepens in the Gulf"
(0)
06:
FEMA cancels a housing program
(0)
05:
Ninth ward pictures
(0)
05:
"Companies are blaming storms for slow sales"
(0)
05:
NOAA makes lemonade out of lemons
(0)
05:
The "Weather Modification Operations and Research Board"?
(0)
05:
FEMA-contracted call center gave false info about flood insurance
(0)
05:
FEMA wants $30 million back from Florida residents
(0)
05:
Should we abandon the coasts for good?
(1)
05:
Jesse Jackson: "Martial law on civil rights"
(0)
05:
Commerce to NWS: Media contacts must be pre-approved
(0)
05:
3% of oil platforms destroyed
(0)
05:
DHS: Katrina not a "catastrophic event"
(0)
05:
"Minority Firms Getting Few Katrina Pacts"
(0)
05:
FEMA sub-sub-contracting leads to possible loss
(0)
04:
Was Katrina only Cat 3 when it came ashore?
(0)
04:
Michael Moore delivers 3500 times body weight to New Orleans
(0)
04:
"Schemes to Control the Weather Clouded by Failure"
(0)
04:
FEMA suspends PHX SAR team over bringing in own security
(0)
04:
Some cities don't want Katrina refugees, have hands out
(0)
04:
Soil heaves, structural problems caused flooding, not overtopping?
(0)
04:
Sharks circling in New Orleans
(1)
04:
Interview: Maj. Ed Bush on Superdome violence
(0)
04:
Evacuees could get virtual vote
(0)
04:
MS casinos to move ashore
(0)
04:
60 unflooded buses found?
(3)
04:
"New Orleans to lay off up to 3,000"
(0)
04:
CSM pushing cheap illegal labor
(1)
04:
WSJ: "Undocumented" workers face struggle to take American jobs
(0)
04:
The politics of the demographic changes
(0)
04:
Snipers targeted cell phone workers?
(0)
04:
What happened to the helicopter shooting arrest?
(0)
04:
DU: Katrina Research Thread
(0)
04:
Most cleanup contracts going to out-of-state firms
(0)
04:
LA death toll 964, MS at 221; are those too low?
(0)
04:
Editorial, roundup: lots of blame to go around
(1)
03:
Looter Guy gets photoshopped
(0)
03:
Gas prices high for six months; Citizens: conserve energy
(0)
03:
A slush fund for the left?
(0)
03:
Study: Iraq, local corruption interfered with relief effort
(0)
03:
Unanswered: Helicopters fired? Flight suspension order?
(0)
03:
Louisiana's seafood industry devastated; MRGO, environmental damage
(0)
03:
St. Tammany having FEMA issues; Prez wanted four-times rent
(1)
03:
Sep 1: Charity, University hospitals situation
(0)
03:
Should the Ninth Ward be rebuilt?
(0)
03:
WaPo: Katrina wouldn't have been as bad under Communism
(1)
03:
Economist: half of NO's small businesses will disappear
(0)
03:
The Jefferson Parish pump operators
(1)
03:
Honore: Plaquemines Parish still not at "recovery part yet"
(0)
02:
Pelican Commission could distribute $40 BILLION in pork
(0)
02:
Is the "Bring New Orleans Back" commission a blast from the past?
(1)
02:
Red Cross closes for weekend; many complain
(0)
02:
Study: Construction methods contributed to damage
(0)
02:
Louisiana wants FEMA to upgrade Superdome
(0)
02:
FEMA pays $100/night for evacuees' motel rooms
(0)
02:
Experts featured in AP scare article on big hurricanes
(0)
02:
Hillary Clinton: Give Katrina aid to illegal aliens
(1)
02:
WaPo: economy trouble because of Katrina
(0)
02:
NYT on the ice trucks to nowhere
(0)
02:
"Shades of FEMA's Brown in Bush Pick"
(0)
01:
Mayors re-whine about FEMA response to Rita
(0)
01:
Mayors, lawyer whine about FEMA response to Rita
(0)
01:
ACE backtracks on levee conclusions
(0)
01:
Sinking, bad design caused floodwall failure?
(0)
01:
Reuters enters history re-writing fray
(0)
01:
"Nagin: Focus on New Orleans, Not Farrakhan"
(0)
01:
Nagin Defends Use of 'Phantom Police'
(1)
01:
Aaron Broussard evacuated pump operators?
(0)
01:
Pravda: Weatherman wrong, Katrina was not man-made
(0)
01:
Allbaugh: DHS merger hurt FEMA
(0)
September 2005
30:
"Symposium: Katrina, Race and Silence
(0)
30:
Blanco sitting on $6 million for housing aid
(0)
30:
Floodwall evidence not that "incredibly damning"?
(0)
30:
Unanswered questions from Mike Davis
(0)
30:
"Housing for Storm's Evacuees Lagging Far Behind U.S. Goals"
(0)
30:
HuffPost: Global warming worsened Katrina, or something like that
(1)
30:
WSJ on our "cumbersome" laws
(0)
30:
Houston evac not as smooth as hoped
(0)
30:
Coburn, Obama want Carnival answers; Greece offered free ships?
(0)
30:
Did a barge cause the Industrial Canal breach?
(0)
30:
WAFB, CNN investigate NOPD looting ring
(0)
30:
Is FEMA overpaying for roofing?
(1)
30:
NOPD got "sensitivity training" from Farrakhan aide
(0)
30:
Only seven gunshot victims in New Orleans?
(0)
30:
Douglas Brinkley opposes Ray Nagin?
(0)
30:
7 in 10 approve of Bush's Rita response
(0)
30:
"Storm-related jobless claims mount"
(0)
30:
"Some black areas may not be rebuilt, HUD chief says"
(0)
30:
Oil, gas pipeline damage worse than first thought
(0)
30:
"Incredibly damning" evidence found about flood walls
(1)
29:
Sheila Jackson Lee: "voter suppression" made Katrina worse
(0)
29:
Eddie Compass: Nagin forced me out
(0)
29:
Did HAARP cause Katrina?
(0)
29:
NOPD looking into looting by their officers
(0)
29:
House GOP Uses Storms to Ease Energy Laws
(0)
29:
Editorialist reports on media covering up for self
(0)
29:
IBD: Brown right about "Louisiana was dysfunctional"
(0)
29:
No tough questions for Blanco
(0)
29:
Lou Dobbs on illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs
(0)
29:
Naive NYT on looting, crime, NOPD, shots at rescue workers
(0)
29:
Coast Guard: our helicopters weren't fired upon
(0)
29:
"Brown told FEMA computers were inadequate"; AP bias
(0)
29:
FBI investigating NOPD corruption, phantom cops; $5k bonus
(2)
29:
More on the dispute death count at the Convention Center
(0)
29:
"The Red Cross money pit"
(1)
29:
Red Cross criticized for not sharing, others
(0)
29:
VRWC on Texas vs. Louisiana response
(1)
28:
Plant safe; Tabasco sauce to "keep flowing"
(1)
28:
Shays: Blanco, Nagin did a "pathetic job" preparing populace
(0)
28:
Without Katrina parishes, LA's 3rd district would go Republican
(0)
28:
The Rita Commission?
(0)
28:
"Bush seeks to federalize emergencies"
(0)
28:
Is FEMA overpaying Carnival Cruise Lines?
(0)
28:
Thrice victimized
(0)
28:
Levee explosion theory, long version
(0)
28:
Ray Nagin meets with Louis Farrakhan, discusses conspiracy theories
(0)
28:
Zoomable aerial map
(0)
28:
Did Blanco tell people to ignore Mike Brown's evacuation warnings?
(0)
28:
Odd: Hurricane Rita caused massive oil rig damage
(0)
28:
Blogosphere questions crime reports
(0)
27:
Mike Brown, Stephen Buyer on the missing parishes
(1)
27:
GOP leaders mount PR offensive to mask lack of conservative principles
(0)
27:
Michael Brown of FEMA 9/27 Congressional Testimony transcript, news links
(0)
27:
Caviar at the Convention Center?
(0)
27:
Mike Brown, the Florida hurricanes, and patronage
(0)
27:
LAT on media accuracy
(0)
27:
Mortician contradicts reports downplaying crime, Part 2
(2)
27:
"Broadcasters contributed to deaths"
(0)
27:
NO police chief Eddie Compass resigns
(0)
27:
Was Charmaine Neville making things up?
(0)
27:
WaPo: LA's legislators like really bad looters
(0)
27:
CityPages' Survivor Stories
(0)
27:
Did DHS know much more than it let on?
(0)
27:
Cato on greater military powers
(0)
27:
CBS blog on Aaron Broussard
(0)
27:
MoveOn: don't cut spending, raise taxes
(0)
27:
Mike Brown: more military, Blanco/Nagin, Convention Center
(0)
26:
Blanco names FEMA liaison
(0)
26:
NO might be drained within a week
(0)
26:
Mike Brown "transitioning" out of FEMA job
(0)
26:
"Waters Recede, Leaving a Trail of Frustration"
(0)
26:
Whew! Only $100 billion might have to be spent
(0)
26:
Gulf Coast energy production to restart
(0)
26:
Mortician contradicts reports downplaying crime
(2)
26:
WaPo: FEMA let reserve force dwindle
(0)
26:
NYT questions no-bid rebuilding contracts
(0)
26:
Superdome, Convention Center death toll exaggerated
(0)
26:
Vin Suprynowicz: 'The institutionally indolent'
(0)
26:
Were deadly dolphins secured or will they fire upon surfers?
(0)
26:
Max Mayfield: More hurricanes expected
(0)
26:
Gregory Rodriguez supports illegal aliens rebuilding New Orleans
(2)
26:
Louisiana wants $40 billion; stuffed with pork
(0)
26:
Were New Orleans inmates abandoned?
(0)
26:
Bozeman declares war on pork
(0)
25:
NOPD says it never confiscated guns
(0)
25:
Broussard to Russert: don't dare fact-check my wild accusations!
(0)
25:
Military tells Bush they should take control after disaster
(0)
25:
NYT brings out snark for Bush Rita trip
(0)
25:
NYT publishes Geraldo Rivera correction
(0)
25:
Searching for more Mike Browns
(0)
25:
NPR on BBC, Southern Culture, and Deliverance
(0)
25:
"Ray Nagin, the error-prone mayor"
(0)
25:
Blanco channels Jimmy Carter, wants NGO for refugees
(0)
25:
CNN's Aaron Brown answers a fan
(0)
25:
"Katrina Turns the Poor Into the Destitute"
(0)
25:
Dems want accounting of FEMA spending
(0)
24:
Entergy New Orleans goes bankrupt
(0)
24:
NYT: Ray Nagin's "Political Reputation Intact"
(0)
24:
New Orleans favorites at Washington ANSWER protest
(0)
24:
Charity, University hospitals to be condemned
(0)
24:
Lawmakers try to save money buy not cutting anything
(0)
24:
"Levee Board chief got thousands in back pay"
(0)
24:
Landrieu, Vitter want $250 billion
(0)
24:
Is rebuilding a "fool's errand"?
(0)
24:
"After Katrina flop, Bush polishes up Rita response"
(0)
24:
New Orleans, three weeks later
(0)
24:
GOP investigation not "partisan cover-up"
(0)
24:
Bishop: unlimited disaster aid to illegal aliens
(1)
24:
Naomi Klein: "the ethnic cleansing of New Orleans"
(0)
24:
FEMA's buses: subcontractor farmed it out; massive confusion; Landstar to blame?
(0)
24:
A journey into Sean Penn's world
(0)
24:
More on the space rays that caused the hurricane
(0)
24:
Arab media criticizes gloating over storm
(0)
24:
President Bush Is 'Our Bull Connor,' Harlem's Rep. Charles Rangel Claims
(0)
23:
CBS offers conflicting views on global warming; Barbra Streisand offers thoughts
(0)
23:
Boston evacuation plan "useless"
(0)
23:
LAT: "Limiting Government's Role"
(0)
23:
"Is this the end of 'compassionate conservatism'?"
(0)
23:
Rohrabacher: Bush is no Reagan
(0)
23:
Word is out, illegals coming for rebuilding jobs
(1)
23:
"Katrina thrusts race and poverty onto national stage"
(0)
23:
NRA gets TRO to stop gun-grabbing
(0)
23:
Blanco channels Heloise: mark yourself with indelible ink
(0)
23:
"Gun sales surge in Louisiana following storm"
(0)
23:
NWS: We did all we could
(0)
23:
Ninth Ward re-flooding due to Rita
(0)
23:
FEMA, DHS looked at different weather forecasts?
(0)
23:
Posse Comitatus all but gutted
(0)
23:
Baltimore Sun: pork before people
(0)
23:
More on Bush using Katrina to drive down wages
(4)
23:
Jimmy Carter on FEMA
(0)
23:
AP Ipsos poll on government response, refugees, race relations...
(0)
22:
Many refugees have arrest records
(1)
22:
Hugo Chavez (D-Venezuela) ships one million bbls oil to U.S.
(0)
22:
Zoomable oil rig map
(0)
22:
Largest U.S. refinery shuttered
(0)
22:
Submarine Sid Blumenthal: Bush stuck on "repeat"
(0)
22:
Blanco wants nonpartisan probe
(0)
22:
FEMA's Flood Insurance Program questioned
(0)
22:
Should the Bush administration probe itself?
(0)
22:
Bette Midler on Katrina
(0)
22:
IMF: don't use deficit, please
(0)
22:
Howard Dean: Gulf Coast Needs Relief, Not A Right-Wing Agenda From Bush
(0)
22:
Fed. engineer: locals skimmed funds for levees
(0)
22:
NRA, SAF seek TRO to stop gun-grabbing
(0)
22:
WaPo: Compulsory flood insurance
(0)
22:
"Bush Braces As Cindy Sheehan's Other Son Drowns In New Orleans"
(0)
22:
Allstate won't pay flood claims
(0)
21:
Tony Blankley responds to Bush's critics
(0)
21:
Rita may be 'national disaster'; $5 gas?
(0)
21:
Frances Townsend took call from Blanco
(0)
21:
James Lee Witt not lobbying for Allstate
(0)
21:
Gun battles in Algiers Point
(2)
21:
FEMA ice trucks reach Maine; Sen. Collins responds
(0)
21:
"We want to turn the Gulf Coast into a magnet for free enterprise"
(0)
21: