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 (1)
19: College students clean up New Orleans (0)
16: New Orleans' upcoming crime problem (0)
09: Pictures of FEMA's wasted trailers (0)
04: "Katrina: What went right" (0)
04: Michael Brown: Bush knew levees could breach; Chertoff should quit (1)
03: AP clarifies Bush flooding/overtopping video (0)
02: Blanco said levees were safe (Aug 29 at noon) (1)
01: Bush admin knew levees could fail (2)
01: Ray Nagin at Mardi Gras picture (0)
01: Jeb Bush involved in Carnival Cruise Lines issue (0)

February 2006

28: Mardi Gras rebounds; Nagin wears camo (0)
28: Bush realized Katrina response faulty when saw people "screaming for help" (0)
27: Poll: Only 16% are angry about Gulf Coast reconstruction (0)
23: "White House Cites Katrina Response Failures" (0)
20: Popular Mechanics "debunks" Katrina myths (0)
19: ACE screwed on blue tarp contracts (0)
16: "Katrina Records Contain A Gap" (0)
12: "Katrina Death Toll May Never Be Known" (0)
12: CHP officers shot alligator(s), will be fired (0)
11: FEMA aid fraud: 40% might be duplicates (0)
11: More on Michael Brown's testimony (0)
10: "Brown Asserts He Alerted White House Quickly on Katrina" (0)
09: Agencies knew about levee breaks within hours after landfall (0)
09: Is Michael Brown free to tell all? (0)
09: "Overtopping claim won't hold water, experts say" (0)
08: "Their Levees vs. Our Levees" (0)
07: "Katrina Index: Tracking Variables of Post-Katrina Reconstruction" (0)
07: Hillary Clinton on the vast White House conspiracy to keep Dems out of LA (1)
07: Ray Nagin seeks foreign aid; "The king of Jordan can take the Lower Ninth Ward" (1)
06: Caption this Kathleen Blanco picture (1)
06: Al Ater: Courts may take over election if law unchanged (0)
06: "Levee tests gnaw at termite expert" (0)
05: "Mistake copying numbers may have contributed to levee failure" (0)
05: FEMA putting smily face on trailer parks? (0)
05: Blanco's special session agenda (0)
05: Kathleen Blanco's $500,000 remodeling job (0)
04: There's a 20-point plan to destroy Black New Orleans? (0)
01: "Women of the Storm" want more money for New Orleans (1)

January 2006

December 2005

November 2005

30: New Orleans flooding caused by Army Corps of Engineers' bad design? (1)
29: Free Wireless WiFi in New Orleans (0)
27: Newsweek on modern-day "slavery" in New Orleans (1)
26: WSJ, Shearer, TP on the Orleans Levee Board's failings (0)
25: WSJ thankful for wrecked New Orleans Public School system (0)
23: Slate on Katrina Cough (0)
23: Andy Kopplin on Tim Kusky (0)
22: HuffPost eats it own: Harry Shearer attacked for looking in bright side (0)
21: Little damage in Jackson, lots of damage payouts (2)
21: "Humid Beings" forum (0)
20: ACLU sues over jail conditions (0)
20: "New Orleans Today: It's Worse Than You Think" (0)
20: 60 Minutes: "New Orleans is Sinking" (1)
20: Can't see rebuilding contracts because of "national security" (0)
20: List of Katrina contracts (0)
20: "Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch" (0)
19: Salon discovers the worker abuse that "liberals" support (0)
18: PBS's NOW fully supports illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs from American workers (0)
18: Nagin wants housing aid (0)
17: Houston mayor upset over FEMA Dec. 1 housing deadline (1)
17: Don King brings turkeys to Baton Rouge (0)
17: Alaska keeps $452 million to spend as wishes (0)
17: New Orleans now swimming in mold (0)
16: NOLA: Don't forget us, and send money while you're at it (0)
16: New Orleans battling against mold (0)
16: "Paddling One’s Own Canoe" (0)
16: LA legislators spent $150,000 for travel expenses, per-diem (0)
16: Blanco sued over budget cuts; now stands accused of race baiting (0)
16: Blanco makes Time Magazine's "Top Three Worst Governors" list (0)
16: Chirac, LeMonde's snarky comments remembered, compared (0)
16: BR officers didn't break unspecified laws (1)
15: Honduras to help their citizens who've settled in the U.S. (0)
15: FEMA: No more hotel rooms after Dec. 1 (0)
15: 2005 Person of the Year: Katrina? Nobodies say yes (1)
14: Rep. Gary Smith's father, uncle get $108 million FEMA contract (0)
14: "Unanswered stuff" at the St. Gabriel morgue (2)
14: "New Orleans Levee Break(s) Before and After" (0)
14: NOPD phantom cops: real or fiction? (2)
14: "Supply Chain: How Wal-Mart Beat Feds to New Orleans" (0)
14: Mayor, sheriff, City Council election details troubling (0)
13: Floodwall pilings seven feet shorter than Army Corps of Engineers said (0)
13: WaPo on NO's history of poverty and corruption (0)
13: Victims file class action suit against FEMA (0)
13: Big-time hauls being looted in St. Bernard Parish (0)
13: Far left: Public housing being racially cleansed, etc. (0)
13: What did Amelia Davis say about Ray Nagin? (0)
12: Rush Limbaugh: "the Katrina Media"; tries, fails to dismiss Bush mishandling (1)
12: 22 dead on a rope in SBP? Nope, debunked (0)
12: DC disfavoring Category 5 protection (0)
12: Four no-bid contracts to be re-bid: in February, when almost done (0)
11: Eddie Compass now hotel security consultant (0)
11: Levee Board attorney suspended just before discussing Jim Huey (0)
11: Brownie no longer doing heckuva job (0)
11: "President Bush, Mayor Nagin Meet To Discuss Rebuilding Efforts" (0)
11: "Floodwalls in Swampy New Orleans 'Like Putting Bricks on Jell-O'" (1)
11: "Criminal Probe Set for New Orleans Levees" (0)
10: Davis might subpoena WH, DHS, HHS, state documents (0)
09: City park wants cleanup workers living in tent cities to pay rent (0)
09: 2008 Democratic convention in New Orleans? (1)
09: Dueling commissions; will NO get its share of money? (0)
09: "Blanco budget plan leaves legislators cold" (0)
09: Nagin to residents: Help Entergy get federal money (0)
09: More on Mississippi's suit against insurance companies (0)
08: "New Orleans Levee Failure Assessment - Part V" (0)
08: Broussard freely commandeered stuff (0)
08: Design, planning pros to meet; Blanco's, Nagin's dueling commissions (0)
08: "Post-hurricane cuts run deep, Governor chops $431 million in spending" (0)
08: " La. lawmakers tackling costly hurricane relief issues budget crisis in special session" (0)
08: Looters left surprises behind in trendy stores; "liberals" explain (0)
07: Sen. Ted Stevens builds bridge to New Orleans' heart (0)
07: Entergy: no timetable for some neighborhoods (0)
07: "March demands accountability of Gretna police action" (the bridge is back!) (0)
07: Lefties cry about illegal aliens getting ripped off, while supporting it happening (0)
07: Halliburton Watch: "subcontractor hires illegal immigrants for Katrina work" (0)
07: "Katrina Cleanup Contracts Continue for KBR" (0)
06: NOLA: Kathleen Blanco to the rescue? (0)
06: AP discovers scandal: illegal aliens getting ripped off (0)
06: House Republican Study Committee and their "Pro-Free-Market Ideas" (0)
05: Could gates, not floodwalls, have blocked storm surge? (0)
05: NCLR, NUL, NAACP, AAJC, and LCCR confused over words "Mexican" and "American" (0)
05: Does Jason Zengerle support American workers? (0)
05: NYT on illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs (0)
05: Katrina Cough vs. 9/11 pulmonary disease (0)
05: Michael Martinez, the Chicago Tribune, and illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs (1)
05: Medea Benjamin: "Katrina Survivors are Losing the Battle to Return Home" (0)
04: Ninth Ward Evictions: "Why are They Making New Orleans a Ghost Town?" (0)
04: "New Orleans evictions skyrocketing" (0)
04: San Antonio Saints update (0)
04: FEMA wants $3.7 billion from Louisiana for services rendered (0)
04: Nagin: NO not bankrupt, has $204 million shortfall, needs federal loan (0)
04: TX Gov. Perry: FEMA housing policy failing evacuees (0)
04: Dick Morris: Mary Landrieu sidetracked money for levees (0)
04: National Guard colonel: no murders in Superdome (0)
04: "Instant Karma" to be flicked in Louisiana (0)
03: "Katrina Cough" due to mold, dust (0)
03: Charlie Melancon and Michael Brown's emails (0)
03: House Panel complains administration dragging feet on document request (0)
03: Several tipsters: shortcuts used in building levees (0)
03: Are roofing, school-building companies making windfall profits? (0)
03: Why wasn't the "Catastrophic Incident Supplement" completed? (0)
03: Brownie, you're a "fashion god" (1)
03: Carnival Cruise Lines defends FEMA contract (0)
02: "Engineers Fear Levee Repairs Not Enough" (0)
02: UC Berkeley: " Investigators release preliminary findings of levee failures at Senate hearing" (0)
01: Rebuilding czar: FDIC Chairman Donald Powell (0)
01: NewsHour report on New Orleans schools (0)
01: 120,000 in Mississippi filed unemployment claims (0)
01: Mississippi to get by with $3 billion less (0)
01: A new Convention Center report (1)
01: Prince Charles to visit New Orleans (0)
01: "Hurricane Katrina funding...for Alaska" (0)

October 2005

31: "U.S. Military Wants to Own the Weather" (0)
31: HuffPost: "Don't Declare War on Hurricane Victims" (0)
30: UN busybody comments on New Orleans poverty (0)
30: Legal system still struggling (0)
30: 51 NOPD cops fired; 240 "missing": phantom cops? (0)
30: Jackson, Sharpton, AFLCIO complain about "low-wage workers" at rally (0)
29: Michael Barone: "After Katrina and Scooter, whither the Bush administration?" (0)
29: "Louisiana politics colorful, extremely corrupt" (0)
29: "Who’s Killing New Orleans?" (0)
29: Blanco wants more control over levee boards (0)
29: MREs being sold on eBay (0)
28: Nearly $1 billion in state tax income lost since Katrina (0)
28: AG Foti: fmr. Levee Board president Jim Huey broke law (0)
28: Public hospitals: repair for $375 million, replace for $567 million (0)
28: Blanco addresses Louisiana Recovery Authority, says nothing of note (0)
28: Who delayed body collection: Blanco, FEMA, or Kenyon? (1)
28: Nagin: NO to be larger; only enough cash til March (2)
28: Nagin's first townhall meeting (0)
28: "New Orleans to re-examine its pump station policies" (0)
27: Public hospital system on verge of financial collapse (0)
27: Head of New Orleans' levee board [Jim Huey] quits (0)
27: "Ministers displeased with lack of plan to bring N.O. residents back" (0)
27: AP mentions illegal aliens doing rebuilding in negative sense (0)
27: "Labor's Hurricane George" (1)
27: Chertoff defends Brownie still doing heckuva job (1)
27: Eased out of the Big Easy (0)
26: AFL-CIO: "Workers Win Fair Wages as Bush Backs off Davis-Bacon Suspension" (1)
26: Teddy Kennedy introduces "Rebuild with Respect Act" (0)
26: Dems concerned about their voters (0)
26: Firm hired ex-Corps head before winning deal (0)
26: Michael Brown wanted to resign... before Katrina (0)
26: Feds to locals: pay premium if don't use ACE to contract debris removal (0)
26: Dallas PD decline employing former NOPD cops (0)
26: Blanco's internal documents might not be released until December (0)
25: MSM, Columbia J-School dean on NOLA's debunking story (1)
25: WSJ: Most federal aid not yet spent (0)
25: More on the illegal aliens at Belle Chasse Naval Air Station (0)
25: Different Louisiana leader wants different billions (0)
25: Peggy Wilson for mayor? (0)
25: Evictions to begin in New Orleans (0)
25: "Local officials fear tax break fallout" (0)
25: "New Orleans Levee Failure Assessment" (0)
25: MRGO as the "express lane": Part 2 (0)
24: Ninth Ward flooded... again (0)
24: Guns now allowed at FEMA Cities (0)
24: Anti-pork bill fails (0)
24: Deaths occured throughout NO (0)
24: NOLA: "Nagin gets mixed reviews" (0)
24: Louisiana leaders reject LA's corrupt reputation; play tu quoque (0)
24: Will Nagin run again? Will there be a strong challenger? (0)
24: 2TheAdvocate's timeline (0)
23: More on the FEMA, DOT buses (0)
23: Nagin moved buses to higher ground? (0)
23: School bus roundup (0)
23: "Usufruct" or an unconstitutional property grab? (0)
23: CBS News report on Bahamonde's testimony (0)
23: One-quarter of NO houses to be demolished (0)
23: DUmmies ahead of Dims on illegal aliens doing rebuilding jobs (0)
23: ACE discounts Aug 29 levee break report (0)
23: Bahamonde: saw levee break on Aug 29; Chertoff: didn't learn until Aug 30 (0)
23: Ice on the move again: from Maine to Florida for Wilma (0)
22: Townsend: feds failed to prepare adequately (0)
22: Bush making conspiracy theories come true; Spike Lee movie (4)
22: Allstate to reduce Gulf Coast exposure (0)
22: San Antonio Saints? Los Angeles Sinners? (0)
22: The 10 biggest FEMA contracts, and the contractors' connections (0)
22: Marty Bahamonde's testimony (0)
21: How Cuba prepares for hurricanes (0)
21: Brownie still doing a heckuva job (0)
21: Cut drug war spending to generate Katrina cash? (0)
21: Louisiana spending $45 million on unnecessary projects? (0)
21: Jeb Bush opposes increased federal responsibilites (0)
21: Illegal aliens taking American jobs, working in unsafe conditions (1)
21: Nearly two months later, still no housing plan (0)
21: Marty Bahamonde, Michael Brown, FEMA emails (0)
21: FEMA overpayments to Katrina victims: $174 million (0)
21: Rumsfeld wants own levee probe (0)
21: Kanye West unwelcomed by U. Florida College Republicans (0)
21: Henry Waxman: are we overpaying Carnival Cruise Lines? (1)
20: "Great American Nero" (0)
20: More Mary Landrieu and alleged illegal aliens employed by Halliburton subcontractor (0)
20: PBS Audio: Engineering and funding regarding the levees, floodwalls (0)
20: Did a Halliburton subcontractor hire illegal aliens to work on a Navy base? (0)
20: Is Ruben Navarrette Jr. an American? (0)
20: FEMA official blames Brown (0)
20: Illegal aliens making good money taking jobs from hurricane victims (0)
20: Cynthia McKinney accuses administration of negligent homicide (0)
20: Mississippi still cleaning up almost two months later (0)
20: "Liberalism" comes to Cape Cod (0)
20: U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce supports illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs (0)
20: Nagin wants to keep the Saints (0)
19: Instapundit-approved debunking post (0)
19: Chertoff defends actions (0)
19: Only 200,000 in hotels, not 600,000 like FEMA said (0)
18: DC Mardi Gras Ball Cancelled (0)
18: "Tear Down the Ninth Ward" (0)
18: Will Wilma force a new evacuation? (0)
18: Cape Cod evacuees spending money on strippers, booze (1)
18: FEMA internal memos not as damning as you might think (0)
17: Fighters, not First Responders (0)
17: Fmr. Levee Board Prez: New Orleans Corrupt 'Down to the Bone' (0)
17: Der Spiegel offers jazz, racism (0)
17: LAT on what happens when the president won't govern (0)
17: Blanco creates Louisiana Recovery Authority (0)
17: Nagin has closed-door meeting with evacuees... in different parish (0)
17: Senate wants answers from Blanco, Nagin (0)
17: Jefferson Parish pump operators wanted to stay (0)
17: Storm surge was up to 28' in Mississippi (1)
17: Bush's Gulf Opportunity Zone doubted (0)
17: ACE redesigns floodwalls to be stronger (0)
17: Blanco to FEMA: use local contractors (0)
16: State Dep't giving away donated foreign MREs (0)
16: South Florida Sun-Sentinel unclear on concept of Americans rebuilding Gulf Coast (0)
16: Blanco order keeps 100s out of available housing (0)
16: Calypso Louie Finally Explains Rita X! (0)
16: Farrakhan charges America with criminal neglect (0)
16: Is the NOPD prepared for returnees? National Guard, active duty figures. (0)
16: Jesse Jackson urges people to direct their Katrina frustrations into activism (0)
16: The feds pay retail! Millions of dollars involved (0)
16: Reason for levee failure discovered? (0)
15: Levees, floodwalls, seepage, heaving, sand boils background info (0)
15: Bexar County (Texas) Dems trying to register evacuees (0)
15: Broussard trying to fire head of E. Jeff Levee District (0)
15: Time interviews Farrakhan (0)
15: Sen. Larry Craig: fraud part of Louisiana's culture (0)
15: Nagin defends gaming; "I see a state in crisis"; "not feeling very regional right now"; thousands still missing (0)
15: Aaron Broussard, the pump operators, the real problem, and his reputation (0)
15: AFL-CIO, Jesse Jackson to demand jobs, justice October 29 (0)
15: "Katrina and the Price of Panic" (0)
15: Criminal sheriff to Nagin: pay my bill! (0)
15: 10/5: Bubba visits, feels peoples' pain (0)
14: "Final solution" advocated at Million Man March Katrina forum on CSPAN (2)
14: Gary Hart on government (0)
14: 50,000 New Orleans households could leave area (0)
14: More on Davis-Bacon (0)
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)
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