Tag Archives: new orleans
AP reports on Corps’ $5 million PR to improve its image
The Corps of Engineers New Orleans District has spent $2.3 million in tax payers’ money to cover its you-know-what and reduce “negative stories” about it. And the Corps will spend another $2.4 million by the end of its three-year contract. In contrast, Levees.org has been laboring since December 2005 to reduce the number of negative […]
Corps of Engineers N.O. office spends $1 million/ year protecting self-image
Updated June 29, 2014. We have just found on a government watchdog website, that the New Orleans District of the Corps of Engineers pays a PR company $1,000,000 annually to help its image and fight bad press. That’s your hard-earned tax payer dollars at work! OPP provides support for print, broadcast and Internet media including […]
See video of Rally at LSU to protest firing scientist (55 sec)
We organized this rally to give citizens a voice to protest the downsizing of LSU Hurricane Center and the firing of key personnel including Dr. Ivor Van Heerden. The Rally was 10am Thursday morning April 16 at LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans. Click here to see a short video shot and edited by […]
