Katrina Coverage

The WaPo's Manuel Roig-Franzia offers "New Orleans Mayor Apologizes for Remarks About God's Wrath".
Obviously, Nagin needed to apologize for the whole comment, including the racist component of New Orleans remaining a "chocolate" and "majority African-American" city. While that's missing from the headline, at least they split that whole comment between the first two paragraphs of […]

Manuel Roig-Franzia of the WaPo has a three-screener called "In New Orleans, No Easy Work for Willing Latinos". The first screen is where the sucker punch lands on American workers, and the last two screens are just a long anecdote.
The article explains how those "Latinos" (actually, illegal aliens from Mexico) work in unsafe conditions and, […]

Last week we had Bloomberg offering "Bush's Attention Wanders From Katrina as Reconstruction Lags". Then came Paul Krugman with "The Promiser in Chief". Apparently new talking points were released, since there are at least two other recent instances of this same line of thought.
For instance, here's Mike Allen of the Washington Post appearing on Meet […]

On Sep. 23, the Washington Post published this graphic from Richard Rhodes and Gwyneth Cravens. It lists the "similarities" and "differences" between the responses to Katrina and Chernobyl. If there was an article associated with this graphic, it's apparently not online. However, the text of the graphic is here, and two letters calling the WaPo […]

Holy moley, the WaPo says in "Economy wobbles in wake of Katrina":
Consumer spending fell in August at the steepest rate since the Sept. 11 attacks as Hurricane Katrina slashed Americans' incomes, fanned inflation and caused $170 billion in losses from property damage, the government reported yesterday in its first tally of the storm's economic effects.
The […]

According to the WaPo editorial "Louisiana's Looters", the Louisiana government's plan for a pork-stuffed "Pelican Commission" funded by $250 billion puts them in the really bad looters category. They aren't just the looters that grab a couple TV sets, they're the type that grab more than they could ever use. Further:
…The Louisiana delegation has apparently […]

The WaPo editorial "Rethinking Flood Insurance" wants to make that mandatory, and stop subsidizing it. Of course, there would be a few loopholes:
In some areas that have acute shortages of safe land — New Orleans being one — this may inflict hardship on the poor. But the best way to address that is to offer […]