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 […]
Army Corps top brass now involved in Levees.org’s quest to list breach sites historic
Ms. Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) has responded in partial fulfillment of a federal requirement to Levees.org’s nomination of two levee breach sites to the National Register of Historic Places. In August 2010, Levees.org first nominated the sites of two major levee breaches during the 2005 storm to the prestigious register […]
