Levees.org’s Oregon Chapter Director studied historic New Orleans neighborhood revival in dissertation
We are pleased to share that Levees.org’s Oregon Chapter Director Leslie March has recently earned her MBA in Sustainable Business from Marylhurst University. Her dissertation focused on the Holy Cross and Lower Ninth Ward Sustainable Restoration Plan after five years. The interesting report details how after the hurricane protection levees in New Orleans failed destroying [...]
Why can’t they all be like Gambit Weekly?
Two years ago, at the annual Green School Edible Garden celebration in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans, Clancy Dubos made me a promise. He told he would issue a style alert to all writers for Gambit Weekly decreeing that from now on, the flooding during Hurricane Katrina shall be called the “federal flood.” That [...]
New Essay on Army Corps Competence Contains Excellent Analysis of Katrina Flood Event
A new essay by Chris Edwards just released by the Cato Institute examines the Army Corps of Engineers’ competence in building infrastructure for civilian purposes noting that the agency which employs about 23,000 people will spend about $9.2 billion in fiscal 2012. The essay concludes most of the Army Corps’ activities do not need to [...]
