9 September 2005
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: feeling weathered
With an additional $51.8 billion approved in Gulf Coast aid, and more on the way, lawmakers worry about the consequences.
"Bipartisan" inquiry into Katrina response is hardly so, and may already have been politicized beyond helpfulness.
FEMA leadership may be bereft of disaster experience, but it's well qualified for political campaigns. (And PR.)
Who is FEMA Director Michael Brown? Not who he claims to be, apparently.
Police seize guns from New Orleanians, ready forced evacuations.
Many residents haven't left--or didn't want to leave. Who are they?
Debit card distribution yesterday at Reliant Park brings heated demand, chaos. and lines today before dawn.
Mardi Gras for Katrina survivors: Women flash to get rescued or to get police protection.
Katrina's first days: The besieged mayor's office was forced to rely on ingenuity and extreme methods, including breaking in to an Office Depot to obtain necessary equipment.
A detailed walk around a writer's now-ravaged New Orleans neighborhood. (More here.)
IRS announces plan where employees can hock sick or vacation days in exchange for Katrina aid.
Op: Being poor in the U.S. makes you invisible--this cannot continue.
Further away states offer sanctuary to hurricane victims, and feel bad when nobody takes them up on it.
Rumor hotline set up in Gulfport, Miss., to help locals know the truth about something they heard from somebody else.
In that photoshopped image of President Bush serenading hurricane victims with a guitar, what was it he was singing? This.
In the aftermath of Katrina, knee-jerk gas buying tapers off.
Colin Powell calls U.N. speech "a blot" on his record.
Two great ways to donate to those hit hardest by Katrina: Buy a $10 T-shirt from Threadless and they'll donate $20; the Onion is matching up to $100,000 of its readers' money; Whole Foods will match up to $1 million of its shoppers' money.
And of course the Red Cross is accepting donations for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Give what you can, where you can.
