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What Would Romney-Ryan Mean for FEMA and Infrastructure? * “One of the themes of the Tampa convention will be the failure of government, and the prosperity that will result if it is cut to rib...

https://www.leveesnotwar.org/hurricane-isaac-and-tampas-blizzard-of-lies/

Thoughts on Two American Traumas Between 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, which do you think gets most attention, and why? What if the national focus on 9/11 is exaggerated and the nation should focu...

https://www.leveesnotwar.org/is-katrina-more-significant-than-september-11/

It was good to see the president on Hurricane Season’s eve being briefed by new FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, and Homeland Security Council president John Bre...

https://www.leveesnotwar.org/throw-us-somethin%E2%80%99-mister-presidentwe%E2%80%99ll-take-some-of-that-%E2%80%9Csocialist-overspending%E2%80%9D/

The New York Times and other sources have reported on the biblical quotations that adorned the cover pages of Pentagon intelligence briefings sent to the Bush White House (“Therefore put on the...

https://www.leveesnotwar.org/how-rumsfeld-aggravated-katrina%E2%80%99s-destructionhow-many-died-from-secdef%E2%80%99s-turf-war/

All week we’ve been wondering Where are the f—ing Senate Democrats?! It’s as though the camera hogs have turned into groundhogs, frightened of their shadows, leaving Obama to do all the hea...

https://www.leveesnotwar.org/roll-up-sleeves-pick-up-phone/

Elana Schor at TalkingPointsMemo.com reports that the economic recovery package being considered in the House of Representatives gives “only $10 billion for rail and other public transportation...

https://www.leveesnotwar.org/get-congress-on-track-to-stimulate-mass-transit/

An excellent Op-Ed piece by Alex Prud’homme in the Feb. 27 New York Times explains the nation’s critical need for infrastructure reinforcement, as seen in Hurricane Katrina and recently in a ...

https://www.leveesnotwar.org/there-will-be-floods/

Within two days, the two chambers of the U.S. Congress have voted to override the president’s veto of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA)—the first water projects bill in seven years ...

https://www.leveesnotwar.org/celebrate-good-news-for-water-worksa-one-two-punch-for-the-decider/

Mark Schleifstein joined the Times-Picayune in 1984 as an environmental reporter after five years at the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi. Since 1996 he and his Times-Picayune colleague Joh...

https://www.leveesnotwar.org/mark-schleifstein-pulitzer-prize-winning-coauthor-of-%E2%80%98path-of-destruction-the-devastation-of-new-orleans-and-the-coming-age-of-superstorms/

Our friends at the American Society of Civil Engineers are concerned like everyone else about the catastrophic collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis. ASCE is calling attention to the degrad...

https://www.leveesnotwar.org/america%E2%80%99s-infrastructure-and-unto-dust-we-shall-return/