Monthly Archives: January 2009

New FEMA leader orders Katrina recovery review

In her second week on the job, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered a comprehensive review of the Hurricane Katrina recovery progress.
New Orleans and Louisiana are thrilled because of delays in money flow due to slowness with damage assessments and mitigation efforts.
This sort of federal review is especially appropriate since the [...]

Levees.org battles falsehoods emanating from a New Orleans university

A professor of engineering at the University of New Orleans wrote a Christmas Day letter to the New Orleans Times Picayune that was a laundry list of the exact sort of disinformation disseminated by the Army Corps of Engineers and its consultancy communities.
Dr. Folse seems to have joined the Corps apologists who shift blame for [...]