With the recent evidence that has surfaced concerning the situation in the Gulf Coast it is obvious that the national government is at fault. The inability of federal organizations such as the Depart...
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Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 29, 2005, was the most destructive and costliest tropical cyclone to hit the United States.
Hurricanes are tropical cyclo...
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Portrayal of the Low Class
When the words poverty comes up what are the first things that come to mind. Usually the first thing thought of is the perception of a man with a torn skiing cap, tatter...
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If Martin Luther King Jr. was still alive today, he would not agree with a lot of social justice issues of our present times. Martin Luther King would be proud of how far we have come from his time an...
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Hurricane Katrina is one of the most powerful storms ever to threaten the United States for the past 100 years. It is the third most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the United States. The durat...
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Many have debated why the flood in New Orleans has occurred. I hypothesize that the flood occurred because of the "bowl" shape that New Orleans is in. Through thorough research I have discovered thre...
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After nearly two years, thousands of truck miles and $12.5 million in storage costs, a cold relic of the flawed Hurricane Katrina relief effort is going down the drain.The federal government is get...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina left a big
"carbon footprint" along the U.S. Gulf Coast, where the
destruction of large trees cut into the amount of greenhouse
gases the area can absorb, ...
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President Bush marked Hurricane Katrina's deadly strike two years ago Wednesday by assuring New Orleans and Mississippi they are getting better. Many residents, still aching over the killer storm a...
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Washington (dpa) - US President George W Bush on Wednesday marked
the two-year anniversary since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans
by pledging more government assistance ...
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Almost two years after Hurricane Katrina roared through Louisiana, a jury began hearing allegations against the only people to be indicted for any of the 1,400 deaths directly linked to the storm.S...
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Nearly 2,000 pages spell out in excruciating detail something that is plain to Virgil Tiller but not the Federal Emergency Management Agency: His school was destroyed and needs to be rebuilt.The pa...
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A couple charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of 35 nursing home residents after Hurricane Katrina said Monday that they want the attorney general barred from prosecuting the case, citing ...
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The owners of a Louisiana nursing home where 35 patients died amid flash flooding during Hurricane Katrina will stand trial Monday on negligent homicide charges.A torrent of water poured through ru...
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It was bad enough when Hurricane Katrina chased Carrie Lewis out of her assisted-living home in New Orleans. Now she fears the rest of her life may be spent in the isolation of a federally sponsore...
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In the wake of Hurricane Katrina's devastation, the U.S. government failed to take advantage of millions of dollars in foreign aid from its allies, The Washington Post reported Sunday.The U.S. has ...
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