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...jockeyed for the 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...
...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, Honoré, 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...
...evacuation of the 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...
...Kathleen Babineaux Blanco make every effort to get federal help...
...sources deep inside his government for information, the way his father or Bill Clinton did, preferring to get reports through channels. A highly screened information chain is fine when everything is going well, but in a crisis it can hinder. Louisiana officials say it took hours for Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to reach Bush (although when she did, he talked to her soothingly, according to White House officials). "His inner circle takes pride in being able to tell him 'everything is under control,' when in this case it was not," said a former aide. "The whole idea that you have...