Obama gets it right on New Orleans
Obama demonstrates what the real issues are regarding New Orleans and does something Obama clearly "gets it" on New Orleans, internet technology, Cox News Service story by Julia Malone entitled "FEMA To Put No-Bid Contracts Up
Today's Unreported News
New Orleans has become a free-for-all for corporations. The big money, as usual, is reserved for the big corporations. The usual suspects, including Halliburton and the Shaw group, are getting the big contracts from FEMA and the Army
New Orleans
Private apartments are out of the question as rent in the New Orleans area is up Circle B Enterprises was awarded $287 million in contracts by FEMA to build The people of New Orleans and the Gulf coast are fighting against the
Katrina spending target of audit
New Orleans officials paid some workers exorbitant amounts of overtime and awarded The Shaw contract, for home inspections and environmental mitigation, Quiett noted that FEMA has approved at least some invoices for all of the
Greg Palast: New Orleans -- One Year Later -- Nothing Much Has
The most beautiful housing in New Orleans are the townhouses near the French Quarter. Greg Palast: Actually, I finally got the contract that said they were FEMA had withheld the documents we requested for a year and a half.
Christmas Presents for Big Firms, Lumps of Coal for New Orleans
Many moons ago, before I started this blog, I found a news article about how a subsidiary of Halliburton was granted repair contracts in New Orleans after the storm and the flooding. Because the article's old and might get deleted,
A Displaced New Orleans Creole Feeling Hurricane Katrina After
The Creole residence of New Orleans were mostly self-sufficient and most had never depended on any form of government assistance for anything other than a few thousand dollars from FEMA. After seeing how nasty, inefficient and unwilling
It's the incompetence, Stupid!
Its storm surge breached levees in New Orleans, unleashing a flood that Instead, FEMA rebid only a portion and then extended their contracts once, were among six that also won new contracts after open bidding in August.
So we got a little rain today
If you have any interest in the future of New Orleans, please read this report. this long delayed Corps repair contract that should have issued months ago. FEMA will cover some minor damage to the drainage system; primarily,
What is the Corps playing at?
The Corps has issued a no-bid "set aside" contract to RES Contractors (full name offices here in the New Orleans area: Bollinger Quick Repair or Scott Armature. which has received numerous Corps and FEMA contracts since Katrina,

Halliburton Watch
Halliburton gets Katrina contract, hires former FEMA director KBR has not been asked to repair the levees destroyed in New Orleans which became the
GAO-06-714T Hurricane Katrina: Improving Federal Contracting
responsible for monitoring the contracts. FEMA officials commented that Hurricane Katrina: Status of the Health Care System in New Orleans
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Some local vendors, angry that their own bids on about $3.6 billion in new trailer contracts were rejected, had simmered over FEMA's classification of
Profiting from Katrina - The Center for Public Integrity
Ex-FEMA head's messages show unfolding drama behind the scenes. WASHINGTON, May 9, 2006 — On the day Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans,
Privatizing FEMA for New Orleans? | MetaFilter
Privatizing FEMA for New Orleans? September 3, 2005 12:02 AM PST. Innovative Emergency Management So this private company got the contract to develop the
Recovering New Orleans' dead subordinated to profit and politics
The New Orleans Times-Picayune quoted David Passey, a spokesman for FEMA, According to Reuters, “The contract between the company and the state’s
New Orleans one year on: FEMA stonewalls recovery efforts
Such waste is not limited to FEMA. The New Orleans Times-Picayune documented a In August of 2006, all four companies were again awarded FEMA contracts.
FEMA: Cruise Ships Leaving New Orleans March 1
New Orleans police and fire officials will be housed in new travel trailers or apartment units. When necessary, FEMA will contract with local apartment
FEMA Privatized Hurricane Disaster Recovery Planning for New
FEMA Privatized Hurricane Disaster Recovery Planning for New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana. Firms that received the contract are big GOP contributors
The Washington Monthly
2001: FEMA designates a major hurricane hitting New Orleans as one of the the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with contract+fema+in+new+orleans: contract+fema+in+new+orleans