President Declares Major Disaster For Mississippi

"WASHINGTON - The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Mississippi to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms...

Alison Hinds "Soca Queen" Creating Waves

  Alison Hinds who became known as the lead vocalist in the calypso band Square One recently ventured out on her own and released her first solo album entitled “Soca queen”.   The album was released in Canadian retail stores on October 16th, 2007 and...

PluggedIn: Technology that took on a hurricane

NEW YORK (Reuters) - While big media covered the mass destruction brought by Hurricane Katrina with helicopter images and satellite weather maps, blogs have been telling stories with similar force, but on a much more personal level. Linking to the Internet's global computer...

Hurricane tab to be costliest U.S. relief effort

WASHINGTON - The era of big government is back. President Bush is presiding over what is sure to be the most expensive government relief and reconstruction operation in U.S. history. With estimates of the federal tab ranging up to $200 billion for rebuilding New Orleans and...

Bush Says Federal Funds Will Pay Bulk of Hurricane Recovery

Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush will tell the nation tonight that the federal government will work closely with local officials to rebuild cities demolished by Hurricane Katrina and pay most of the cost of infrastructure repairs. ``The work that has begun...

Is New Orleans Florida's future?: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

I, like many Floridians, am upset with our government's response in the disaster-stricken Gulf Coast. Despite millions of tax dollars that have been spent on 9-11 training and hundreds of millions that we spend each year on our military and military equipment, our fellow...

How Bush Blew It - Newsweek Hurricane Katrina Coverage

Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe.

Bush Requests $51.8 Billion More for Relief

President Bush sent Congress a request for $51.8 billion in additional hurricane relief yesterday, raising Katrina's cost to the federal government to $62.3 billion so far, easily a record for domestic disaster relief. Separately, Republican leaders moved to try to contain...

FEMA: Media Blackout Not in Effect

A FEMA spokesman said Thursday that the agency hopes news organizations won't show dead bodies as part of their coverage of Hurricane Katrina, but acknowledged that such coverage decisions lie with editors, not government officials.