I heard this on CNN early this morning, just after my last post. If you happen to have not heard Ray Nagin’s interview yesterday afternoon on WWL Radio, go listen right now. If you need a work-safe version, you can read the transcript on CNN.com. Here are some important quotes: “I told [President Bush] we… Continue reading

Apparently the Army Corps of Engineers is currently “aggressively battling” to close breaches in the levees in New Orleans. In the meantime, there are tens of thousands of people still stranded at the Superdome and the Convention Center, with no food, no water, no electricity, no security and no information from the officials who are… Continue reading

There’s no byline, so I assume it’s a staff piece: “One lasting lesson that has to be drawn from the Gulf Coast’s misery is that from now on, the National Guard must be treated as America’s most essential homeland security force, not as some kind of military piggy bank for the Pentagon to raid for… Continue reading