Word: blancos
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...volunteers stayed at the capital city’s Sheraton, while others in the Harvard Foundation-led group slept at the home of Louisiana Governor Kathleen B. Blanco and the Louisiana State University’s faculty club...
...Putting Blame Where it Belongs” (Sep. 12), Mark A Adomanis asks the question, “Why did Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco not declare a state of emergency immediately after the hurricane hit, instead becoming embroiled in an administrative turf war with the federal government?” In truth, Gov. Blanco declared a state of emergency well before the hurricane’s landfall...
...vessel. More ominously, in the wake of the horrifying discovery of 34 bodies at a Louisiana nursing home and an additional 45 at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center, a very public dispute about the slow pace of gathering bodies in New Orleans erupted between FEMA and Kathleen Blanco, the Governor of Louisiana. Claiming that it needed better coordination with local authorities to get the job done, Houston-based Kenyon International Emergency Services canceled its temporary contract with FEMA and signed on with the state instead. By the end of the week, the official death toll from Katrina had risen above...
...time for progress reports.) He strides down the streets of New Orleans to correct his soldiers' comportment; he strides down tarmacs to waiting helicopters. He strides away from the Governor of Louisiana as she honors him at a press conference. "Where's my general?" asks a nonplussed Kathleen Blanco. Across the yard, Honor, a Dutch Masters cigar curled under his forefinger, has a cell phone pressed to his ear. "He's taking care of business," an aide says...
...city, instead of letting them sit idle only to be flooded and destroyed? According to one blog’s estimation, the city of New Orleans owned at least 569 buses capable of ferrying out 33,350 people in a single trip. Why did Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco not declare a state of emergency immediately after the hurricane hit, instead becoming embroiled in an administrative turf war with the federal government? Furthermore, why did she have to be compelled by President Bush to make the evacuation of New Orleans compulsory? What exactly has New Orleans homeland security director Colonel Terry...