The Advocate Digs in Heels Disparaging Flood Survivors
Last week, we alerted you that an editor at The Advocate defended the newspaper’s omission of the words “federal levee failure” when writing about the flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. This week, that same editor doubled down and took “umbrage” to our letters and stated that The Advocate‘s staffers “deserve better from the […]
Editor at The Advocate has Unusual Response to a Subscriber
Recently, an editor at The Advocate told one of its subscribers that there’s no need to mention federal levee failure when writing about the 2005 flooding that took the lives of 1,392 people. The Editor was responding to a Letter-to-the-Editor from Cathy Hightower, a 50-year subscriber whose father perished in the flooding. In an email, the Editor told Ms. Hightower […]
Founder Rosenthal speaks with visitors from Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique and Angola
Recently, founder Sandy Rosenthal met with a group on a study tour related to Transparency & Accountability in Government. This delegation is made of twelve international leaders from Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique and Angola. Rosenthal spoke to the group about Levees.org’s work in exposing the Army Corps of Engineers levee building mistakes and its campaign after […]
