February 13, 2006 -
FEMA had planned to stop paying for hotel bills for 12,000 victims of Hurricane Katrina today, and a last-ditch attempt by attorneys to get (another) stay has failed, the AP reports:
February 13, 2006 -
Conservative columnist Robert Novak notes that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) seems to be distancing himself from the president in preparation for Frist's 2008 bid for the White House:
February 13, 2006 -
[Chris just returned from a 4-day trip to New Orleans and Mississippi for Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch. Stay tuned for more reports from the trip about the rebuilding -- and lack of rebuilding -- the Gulf.]
February 10, 2006 -
[Still blogging live from New Orleans]
Today's New York Times reports that the White House knew about the levee breaches earlier than they've let on:
February 8, 2006 -
Will be light blogging as we get situated in New Orleans. We touched down at noon and have done a quick tour of the 9th Ward, Bywater and other hard-hit communities.
February 7, 2006 -
Thanks in large part to the generous support of you, our readers, we're making another fact-finding trip to the Gulf Coast this week, as part of our Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch project.
February 1, 2006 -
On the same day that Texas oilman George W. Bush declared the country is "addicted to oil," a bi-partisan Florida delegation was gathering to propose a sweeping ban on the offshore oil-drilling heavingly promoted by George and brother Jeb Bush in Florida:
January 31, 2006 -
Today's revelations about the grotesque failures of FEMA's response to Katrina weren't necessarily shocking for the information that was brought to light -- but by the fact that nobody seems to care, and no one is being held accountable.