Donald Powell on New Orleans’ failed levees
June 1, 2007 Donald Powell, recovery czar for the Gulf Coast and one of the President’s men, didn’t retract his statement last week that the federal government has a duty to help metro New Orleans due to the failure of the federally built levees. Today, the Washington Post reports this statement by Mr. Powell in […]
Donald Powell and La’s Road Home
People listen when one of the President’s men speaks. So it got noticed last week when Donald Powell, recovery czar for the Gulf Coast said “…the federal government is responsible for this hurricane damage (to New Orleans) because of the failure of the levee system…” Powell said this before the Senate Disaster Recovery Subcommittee. It […]
Awful, like the failure of the federal levees in New Orleans
Always an optimist and never missing a reason to celebrate, I was delighted to find a good “sign” in the Times Picayune’s letters-to-the-editor (LTEs). Two days in a row, on unrelated subjects, writers punctuated their points by drawing parallels to the “failure of the federal levees.” One of the LTEs was about the theft of […]
