When No One Blames the Hurricane
In 1889, after several days of rain, a badly maintained dam broke in Johnstown, PA. The deluge destroyed the town and killed 2,209 people. No one blames the rain. In 1912, the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank drowning more than 1,500 people. The Titanic had ignored heavy ice warnings and had too few […]
Will the Real Reformers Please Stand Up?
A few weeks ago, we queried a lot of people in town. We wanted to know who–or what group of people–was the brainchild behind the famous One Levee Board campaign. We knew that “Citizens for 1” led the campaign to get statewide support for the new levee board legislation, but who was the creator or […]
