It makes sense that a 212-year-old agency with a $50 billion annual budget would know how to talk. One of many sharp insights in the new Katrina documentary, The Big Uneasy, is that the U.S. Army ...
Recently, in a letter in this publication, writers Paul Kemp and Ivor van Heerden stated the pre-Hurricane Katrina levee boards gave the Army Corps of Engineers a 40-year pass on the “never quite ...
New Orleans’ levee authority is starting a special police unit armed with semi-automatic rifles and trained in SWAT tactics, according to an internal memo and agency officials, a change it says is ...
The South Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (SLFPA-E), which maintains levees and floodwalls across New Orleans, is planning to grow its 50-officer police force by adding a special unit ...
We were distressed to read the Aug. 8 guest column by Blair duQuesnay of Citizens for 1 Greater New Orleans exposing the shocking political meddling currently undermining the Southeast Louisiana Flood ...