Sandy Rosenthal is guest of Hillary Clinton at U.S. Department of State
The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella has invited Sandy Rosenthal founder of the flood protection advocacy group Levees.org to attend the launch of The Women in Public Service Project and Colloquium in Washington DC next month. The 4-hour colloquium will take place at the U.S. Department of State on […]
Levees.org to state its case in Baton Rouge for levee breach sites
On Thursday at the Louisiana State Capitol, Levees.org will defend its quest to list two major levee breach sites to the National Register of Historic Places. The group will state its case, again, before the Louisiana Advisory Board to nominate the breach site of the 17th Street Canal and the east side north breach of […]
Federal lawyers seek to overturn ruling on Corps of Engineers’ liability for levee failure during Katrina
Yesterday in New Orleans, federal lawyers attempted to overturn a November 2009 ruling that found the Army Corps of Engineers guilty of shoddy maintenance of a shipping channel in eastern New Orleans and thus financially liable for damages that occurred during Hurricane Katrina. Justice Department lawyers argued before a three-judge panel from the 5th U.S […]
