I am not as optomistic as the name of this site suggests others might be, but while I don’t believe we can stop global warming, I do believe we must have more and better methods of responding to and slowing the escalation of global warming. Making one helluva lot of noise so the leaders have […]
A Report Back from Food Not Bombs on the Ground in Louisiana about Feeding the Displaced
This just in from a local Tucson activist I know: ———– From: Walt Staton Date: Sep 12, 2005 1:09 AM Subject: In Baton Rouge Well, I thought it was crazy enough the first time that I came to Louisiana a few years ago to live in Baton Rouge, and I figured I’d be back, but […]
The Blame Goes Deep and Wide
This from taking down words that references thishttps://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=32144&printerfriendlyVers=1& How much did (now Indiana) Gov. Daniels have to do with the underfunding of levee repair in New Orleans? This story from govexec.com explores that. …a former chief of the Army Corps of Engineers disparaged senior White House officials for ‘not understanding’ that key elements of the […]
Leadership is more than a style — Brown vs. Honore
FEMA should not be a political appointment. How does Michael Brown become head of FEMA? Maureen Dowd describes him in her column as “the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA – a job he trained for by running something called the International Arabian Horse Association – admitted he didn’t know until Thursday that there were […]
Tulane , slums, contraception and whining.
According to the temporary web site for Tulane “Nine of the leading higher education associations, which represent hundreds of colleges and universities around the country, have developed a plan to accept Tulane students, as well as those from other institutions adversely affected by the hurricane, for the fall semester only.” Educational bureaucracy is a massive […]
Slow response to Katrina, Interview with Mayor Nagin, and Nat. Guard Shortages
This opinion piece in the Guardian by the former editor of the NYT pays tribute to the city of new orleans while mourning its fate. —————————- Mayor Ray Nagin interview transcript https://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway/Five part series that shows the knowledge of what was needed to be done to prevent just what has happened was there long before […]