Levees.Org Second Annual Report Card
on the performance of the US Army Corps of Engineers
in previous 12 months
Presented Saturday August 25, 2007
Isidore Newman School, 1903 Jefferson Avenue, New Orleans
by: Sandy Rosenthal, Executive Director and
HJ Bosworth Jr, Reseach Director
Admitting past mistakes: D
The Corps-sponsored Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET) and the independent U of [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Army Corps gets performance report card
Thursday, September 6, 2007 – 1:52 pm
Tancredo and the New Orleans Gravy Train
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 – 11:08 am
Americans now understand that the majority of the destruction in New Orleans two years ago was due to the failure of the federally built levees which, by the US Army Corps’ own admission, should have withstood Katrina’s storm surge.
Which makes presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo’s comments quite odd. Last Friday, the Colorado Congressman said it’s [...]
New Orleans to CNN: A nickel’s worth of advice
Sunday, September 2, 2007 – 2:14 pm
On the anniversary of the worst engineering failure in US history, Glenn Beck with CNN says not another dime should be sent to help New Orleans.
Such a judgement requires an exquisite comprehension of the facts and issues. But, in the very first lines of his monologue, Mr. Beck blows it by making statements that [...]