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January 21, 2006 - One of the biggest mysteries of the botched response to Hurricane Katrina is this: why did it take nearly a week for FEMA to mobilize buses to evacuate thousands of city residents?

January 12, 2006 - Posted by R. Neal Some residents are not happy with at least one proposal:

January 12, 2006 - Fresh news over at Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch: award-winning reporter Sean Reilly has a good piece looking at the $29 billion Katrina relief package

January 4, 2006 - The votes are in: Katrina and hurricanes were the media stars of 2005. Katrina and Rita made it onto almost every top-five list of the last year's "big news stories" -- which makes it all the more shocking and tragic how poorly key stories about the hurricanes were covered.

December 21, 2005 - In case you missed it, one of the more astounding moments in last week's Congressional hearings about Hurricane Katrina was seeing a series of Republican lawmakers claim that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco was personally responsible for the 1,086 known to have died in the storm.

December 19, 2005 - A "Big Victory" -- that's how the Sun-Herald of Southern Mississippi (Biloxi) describes today's news that the House and Senate voted at 4 a.m. this morning to approve $29 billion in spending for hurricane relief.

December 15, 2005 - Posted by R. Neal

December 13, 2005 - Posted by R. Neal A New Orleans resident and homeowner wants to renegotiate the Louisiana Purchase...

December 12, 2005 - In case you missed it, we've recently posted some great stories over at Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, our spin-off project to investigate events in the post-hurricane South:

December 12, 2005 - One of the most contentious issues about the failed Hurricane Katrina response is why our country's on-call, always-ready troops didn't arrive in Louisiana to help until September 5, a week after the storm hit.