Tag: Hurricanes

Energy and Environment

Remembering Katrina: Reflections on chance and change

David Sampson · August 26, 2015 4:01 am

Republican presidential candidate Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., speaks during an education summit Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in Londonderry, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Beltway Confidential

Jindal: It shouldn’t take a hurricane to fix education

Jason Russell · August 20, 2015 4:01 am

President Barack Obama shakes hands with a guest before taking the stage to speak at the Port of New Orleans, Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama heads to New Orleans for Katrina anniversary

Nicole Duran · August 19, 2015 9:42 pm

Before Katrina, barely more than half of New Orleans students graduated. In the 2013-14 school year, three out of four graduated -- right in line with Louisiana's statewide graduation rate. (AP photo)

Beltway Confidential

The charter solution

Jason Russell · July 27, 2015 4:01 am

AG Hood hires whistleblowers’ attorneys for Katrina lawsuit against State Farm

John O'brien · April 27, 2015 8:54 pm

FEMA became infamous after its poor response to Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Gulf Coast in 2005. (Getty images/Mark Wilson)

Federal disaster spending spirals, and FEMA has no plan to control it

Mark Tapscott · December 18, 2014 10:00 am

FEMA unsure of major disaster costs

Mark Tapscott · November 26, 2014 10:00 am

John Victorson, owner of St. Roch Tavern, holds up the fallen recovery sign in front of the dilapidated market near his business that has not been repaired since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Friday, Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)

20,000 FEMA Katrina projects in limbo years later; feds can’t verify work done

Sarah Bedford · November 13, 2014 10:00 am

Rick Lee from Sacramento FEMA's Search and Rescue Task Force Seven directs his dog Ana while searching homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in East Biloxi, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005. The new logistics supply management system was meant to fix problems that became obvious during FEMA's response to Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

IG says FEMA can’t be sure new logistics system will work in next Katrina

Mark Tapscott · October 19, 2014 3:28 pm

Mayor David Garcia shows downtown Waveland, Miss. after Hurricane Katrina devastated the town in 2005. (AP Photo/Courtesy of David Garcia)

Nine years later, Hurricane Katrina recovery funds still being audited

Mark Tapscott · September 6, 2014 6:00 pm

Katrina victims live out Hollywood eco-agenda

Byron York · March 20, 2014 12:00 am

In a Feb. 20, 2013 file photo, former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin walks past Gallier Hall, the old New Orleans City Hall as he arrives at the Hale Boggs Federal Building and United States District Courthouse to appear in federal court for an arraignment on public corruption charges in New Orleans. Nagin, who led the city during its darkest days after Hurricane Katrina, will be thrust back into the spotlight Jan. 27 when he goes on trial in a corruption case that mushroomed at the end of his eight-year tenure. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin goes on trial for bribery charges

Washington Examiner · January 27, 2014 5:00 am