The weatherman nobody heard

NEW ORLEANS -- On Aug. 28, the storm was still a day away. Evacuations were under way and people were just starting to arrive at the Superdome. At his desk at the National Weather Service office in Slidell, outside New Orleans, meteorologist Robert Ricks knew he had a job...

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.

CNN Sues For Access

CNN has re-discovered their backbone.  From MediaBistro:If you needed any more evidence that the failed response to Hurricane Katrina has lit a fire under CNN, look no further than this evening's memo to staff: September 9, 2005 To: CNN Staff From: Jim...

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.