President Obama dispatches two key aides to New Orleans
While President Obama’s two Cabinet Secretaries were in the Gulf region on a fact finding mission March 5-6, I had the opportunity to speak to them. This happened at the request of Senator Mary Landrieu D-LA. It was both an honor and a testament to the strength of the force and influence of Levees.org. And […]
New FEMA leader orders Katrina recovery review
In her second week on the job, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered a comprehensive review of the Hurricane Katrina recovery progress. New Orleans and Louisiana are thrilled because of delays in money flow due to slowness with damage assessments and mitigation efforts. This sort of federal review is especially appropriate […]
Levees.org battles falsehoods emanating from a New Orleans university
Updated June 29, 2014. A professor of engineering at the University of New Orleans wrote a Christmas Day letter to the New Orleans Times Picayune that was a laundry list of the exact sort of disinformation disseminated by the Army Corps of Engineers and its consultancy communities. Dr. Michael D. Folse seems to have joined […]
