Gov watchdog looks at Corps Faulty Pumps
The Government Accountability Office has responded to pressure from Louisiana’s senior senator to review the US Army Corps of Engineers’ installation of $26 million worth of pumps installed last year in New Orleans even though senior officials knew they were defective. After the Corps of Engineers’ supposedly Cat 3-proof levees failed in a Cat 2 [...]
PoP: The “Soul” of New Orleans has no boundary line
This, from a posting I placed on a professional meeting planning site, in response to a post regarding New Orleans. You can take the girl out of New Orleans, but you’ll never take New Orleans out of the girl (or guy!)… I’m from New Orleans and I’ve lived in No California/Silicon Valley for 20 years. [...]
NEWS: Color of Change and bringing Katrina survivors home
A friend in New Orleans sent this to me in an email recently, via a student in the School of Social Work at CSU, Chico CA. I think it’s important to note, and so I’m sending it to you as NEWS. Check it out, please: Help the Gulf Coast Recover from Katrina Professor Myers-Lipton from San [...]
