Ivor van Heerden handed latest victory in LSU lawsuit
Ivor van Heerden, former deputy director of the now shuttered LSU Hurricane Center, announced in February 2010 that he was suing LSU for wrongful termination. The outspoken professor claimed LSU retaliated against him for making statements critical of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after the agency’s levee system failed in New Orleans during Katrina. […]
Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs, supports Levees.org’s quest to list New Orleans breach sites to National Register
Just before the Anniversary of the Federal Flood, Levees.org invited historian and author Walter Isaacson to consider submitting a letter supporting the group’s quest to list the New Orleans levee breaches to the prestigious National Register of Historic Places. Walter Isaacson who once worked for TIME and CNN is now President and CEO of the […]
Even the most insistent calls to evacuate before Katrina did not warn the levees could break
In the days and weeks after the levees broke in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, many members of Congress blamed the flood victims for their predicament. One Congressman proposed punishment for those who did not evacuate. This behavior sprung from the wrong-headed belief that the victims knew this sort of flooding disaster could happen and […]
