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  • McCain's Pander Bus stops in New Orleans, lies to the Lower 9th

    John McCain's ''Pander To Anyone I Can Think Of'' tour has made a particularly shameless stop in New Orleans. In the still-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, the poorest and most heavily damaged area of the city, McCain had the gall to say this: ''Never again will a disaster of this nature be handled in the terrible and disgraceful way it's been ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by RussMcBee on April 24, 2008
  • The ongoing environmental impact of Katrina and Rita

    This is astonishing: New satellite imaging has revealed that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in America -- an essentially unreported ecological catastrophe that killed or severely damaged some 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana. The die-off, caused initially by wind and later by ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by RussMcBee on November 15, 2007
  • Drowning New Orleans again

    First, the rigged bid: A review of documents by The Associated Press found that when the Army Corps of Engineers solicited bids for drainage pumps for New Orleans, it copied the specifications -- typos and all -- from the catalog of the manufacturer that ultimately won the $32 million contract. Then, the money quote: MWI [the manufacturer ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by Russ McBee on April 30, 2007
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