Gulf Coast
July 19, 2007 -
At a hearing held today by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, investigators released internal Federal Emergency Management Agency e-mails documenting that FEMA attorneys rejected environme
July 17, 2007 -
Alternet posted an excellent piece this week on how in the wake of Hurricane Katrina the Bush Department of Labor failed to carry out its purported mission of protecting workers' welfare. Reports Brian Beutler with the Media Consortium:
July 12, 2007 -
Jacob Faber, a researcher with the Center for Social Inclusion, recently looked at how policies on post-Katrina housing and business development are laying a blueprint for the expulsion of New Orleans' black residents at RaceWire, the Colorl
July 10, 2007 -
Well, this is certainly embarrassing news.
July 6, 2007 -
Families in desperate need of housing while FEMA trailers moulder in distant fields. Homeowners waiting endlessly for checks to fund rebuilding. Habitable public housing complexes boarded up while affordable apartments disappear.
June 25, 2007 -
Federal agencies responding to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita doled out more than $2.4 billion in contracts that guaranteed profits for big companies, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based investigative journalism nonprofi