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...While reading about the gulf coast hurricane disaster, I thought about 9/11. In both tragedies, failures of hyperbureaucratic structures resulted in the loss of lives. According to The 9/11 Commission Report, there were loads of information and hints about terrorist activities before the attack. It was the same with Katrina. Meteorologists knew at least 48 hours before the storm hit the Gulf Coast that an exceptional force of nature was aimed at New Orleans. Military and medical aid should have been set up in anticipation. I cannot believe that a civilized and highly developed, rich nation was unable to provide...
...conservatives last week after nominating White House counsel and longtime aide Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. But this week may offer Bush a chance to show progress on several issues that have plagued his second term. He will spend the first two days of the week in the Gulf Coast, where he'll attend the re-opening of a Mississippi elementary school and Habitat for Humanity building a house in Louisiana, as well as a dinner in New Orleans with local officials. He also has an interview on NBC's Today Show on Tuesday from Louisiana...
...sent the British home in defeat, was fought here. Indeed, by the end of the week the region's take-no-prisoners attitude seemed to be bearing some fruit on Capitol Hill, with Congress hastily approving $1 billion in disaster loans to help devastated Gulf Coast communities pay salaries when tax payments dry up. One beneficiary: New Orleans, where Mayor Ray Nagin last week had to lay off 3,000 employees. At the same time, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman was publicly saying Congress should ante up for higher levees to withstand Category 4 or 5 hurricanes...
After Hurricane Katrina damaged oil refineries in the Gulf Coast region, the price of heating oil rose to more than $2 per gallon, compared with $1.70 per gallon in July, according to a letter sent to the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee last month...
...Prior to Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in the Gulf region, Americans were facing record prices for oil, natural gas, and propane. Hurricane Katrina damaged platforms and ports and curtailed production at refineries in the Gulf of Mexico, the source of almost a third of U.S. oil output,” the senators wrote in the letter...