FEMA
Brownie: FEMA Cannot Succeed
Today's "Cities at Risk" conference, organized by Milano, The New School for Management and Urban Policy, could not have been planned more appropriately. Yesterday, President Bush named R. David Paulison to replace former FEMA director Michael Brown.
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Bush’s Crony Capitalism Shows G.O.P.’s True Face
Hai Knafo
George W. Bush
Politically as well as physically, the destructive force of nature can rip away surfaces and expose read more »
Bush's Crony Capitalism Shows G.O.P.'s True Face
Politically as well as physically, the destructive force of nature can rip away surfaces and expose read more »
Brown vs. Rasiej
One of the interesting down-ballot outcomes of this race was a reminder of what a low-tech slog city politics really is.
Andrew Rasiej, a tech entrepreneur who got lots of ink, not least here, for his plan for affordable wireless internet, wound up with just over 5% of the vote.
Michael Earl Brown, by contrast, didn't appear in the Campaign Finance Board's voter guide, or on televised debates. His campaign seems to have consisted largely of simple, black-and-white leaflets affixed to bus shelters around the city.
And Brown got over 9%.
Maybe it was simply race -- Brown was the only African-American campaigning for the job. Some suggest it had to do with his sharing a name with the hapless FEMA chief who was much in the news -- and whose photo NY1 briefly used as the Public Advocate returns came in -- though I'm not sure why that would win him votes. read more »
Anyway, the bottom line seems to be that Thomas Friedman doesn't carry much weight in the Democratic primary.
NOTE: This post is corrected from an earlier version. If you see an error in a post, please email me instead of/as well as putting it in comments -- it'll be caught sooner that way.
The Story of the Hurricane
NBC News
NBC's Tim Russert interviews Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
“People inside were literally dying,” ABC News correspondent Chris Bury told The Observe read more »
Michael Brown, Poster Child
Robert George has an interesting point over on his blog about Michael Brown, the hapless FEMA chief.
You don't have to agree with George's take on affirmative action to appreciate his observation: Brown, he writes is "the poster child for white-boy affirmative action." read more »
State Dribbling Disaster Money to Close Budget
Despite all the bad budget news you've been reading about in recent weeks, the state does have some read more »
Desperately Seeking Disaster Aid
As the owner of a business just blocks from ground zero, I was comforted to hear, in the dark hours read more »
