Category: Hurricane Katrina

Sigh- Here we go again: Mayor Suspends Reopening of New Orleans Bars, restaurants and shops had just begun showing signs of life when the mayor suspended the reopening of …

Paul Salopek and Deborah Horan of the Chicago Tribune write a detailed account of the hell inside the New Orleans Superdome and Convention Center in How places of refuge …

John Aravosis, best known for his unnatural obsession with Jeff Gannon, writes in Radar Magazine that GOP failure to support a "9/11 style" independent commission amounts to "stonewalling." What's …

Everyone else seems to be offering up their home state's pet federal projects for sacrifice in order to free up money for the reconstruction after Hurricane Katrina (and earning …

One of America's greatest strengths in the past has been our ability, in the time of great national crisis, to set aside our differences and pull together as one …

I don't know why- maybe the cell phones are just starting to work better or maybe people are getting that "I want to be home" feeling- but my phone …

ABC News reporter Dean Reynolds gathered reactions to President Bush's speech last night in the parking lot of the Houston Astrodome. What Reynolds obviously wasn't prepared for was the …

The full text of the President's address is available from the White House, via AP. Challenge Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to summarize the speech...

One of the issues that I've been discussing with Paul is the microeconomic impact of Hurricane Katrina on middle class homeowners in New Orleans. One thing that could really …

I'm sure for many of you, understanding how the situation in New Orleans could be this screwed up must be hard to grasp. I can't blame you, it is …