H.J. Bosworth Jr went to the Corps of Engineers public meeting last night. I stayed home to nurse a bad chest cold. Boz felt he needed to add to the Times Picayune’s version of events and his contribution is below. On Thursday January 28th, I attended a meeting and presentation by Representative Ligi of Kenner [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Levees.org’s lead researcher talks about Corps public meeting in Kenner
Friday, January 29, 2010 – 8:41 pm
Corps making Levees.org pay for info we’re entitled to see!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 – 4:22 pm
The New Orleans Saints just won and Levees.org is winning! But the Army Corps of Engineers is trying to block our forward progress and keep us from scoring! The Corps is telling us we have to pay big bucks for documents we’re entitled to under federal law! We requested documents from the Corps’ Public Affairs [...]
Go Saints! Go Levees.org! Go New Orleans!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 – 5:29 pm
Look what a Levees.org supporter just brought to our attention! You’ll love it! Watch this short wonderful video and share it. And please point them to the people who posted it first.
BOOK REVIEW: “Breach of Faith” by Jed Horne
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 – 4:57 pm
Jed Horne’s Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City is a splendid read. By blending real life stories with one of the decade’s most memorable — and horrific — events, Horne is likely responsible for assuring that the Flooding of 2005 is remembered with accuracy. Precisely because the [...]
Levees.org’s map and research to be published in Insurance Journal Magazine
Monday, January 11, 2010 – 5:21 pm
Insurance Journal magazine has requested Levees.org’s permission to publish our levee statistics and map and the accompanying story in its periodical. Insurance Journal and its web site, products of Wells Publishing, is a trade news organization covering the property/casualty insurance industry. Its magazines are published on a national/regional basis 24 times a year. There are [...]
Greater New Orleans flood, one of top stories of decade, deserves accurate coverage
Sunday, January 10, 2010 – 2:05 pm
As 2009 drew to a close, many articles covered the most memorable events of the past decade. Naturally, they all included the metro New Orleans flood. But the former chief of Gannett’s Capitol Bureau speaking to the Alexandra Town Talk stands out and gets a “seal of approval” from Levees.org for accurately describing the August [...]
Why was Levees.org founded in New Orleans after Katrina?
Friday, January 8, 2010 – 11:56 am
Until the American people see that the flooding of metro New Orleans was a federal responsibility, they will never see rebuilding as a federal duty nor see they too could be in danger. And so Levees.org was founded, to help everyone everywhere understand why the New Orleans region was so vulnerable when Katrina arrived on [...]
Levees.org’s new levee stats getting national attention
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 – 4:29 pm
Levees.org’s newly-released levee statistics and the positive correlation of levees to the U.S. economy is enjoying nationwide circulation. The story appeared today in Homeland Security’s Newswire Service. And yesterday, it was sent to the 150,000 members of the American Society of Civil Engineers. These are the people who need to understand that levees, and their [...]
Cartoonist: LSU and Ivor Van Heerden
Monday, January 4, 2010 – 4:28 pm
Cartoonist Fred Mulhearn’s depiction of Louisiana State University is so funny even Ivor van Heerden cannot help but smile. Dr. Van Heerden just forwarded this to me. It first appeared in The Advocate, Sun Jan 3, 2010. Here it is for everyone to see.
The New Orleans region and its levees is not alone
Sunday, January 3, 2010 – 7:32 pm
When Gerry Galloway revealed in a briefing to Congress last year that 43% of the American population lives in counties protected by levees, we wanted to know exactly where those counties were. So I called Galloway on his cell phone and asked him for it. Galloway told me he didn’t have it, that it was [...]
Levees.org featured on front page of Times Picayune
Saturday, January 2, 2010 – 2:43 pm
A story about important new data released by Levees.org is featured today on the front page of the New Orleans Times Picayune. “Levee statistics point up their importance to nation’s economy” is about the American people and their relationship with levees. It’s also over a year in the making. It took 6 months alone just [...]