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
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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
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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,

FEMA: Cruise Ships Leaving New Orleans March 1
ships helped serve the City of New Orleans and other devastated areas in the Lines has a "profit-neutral" contract with FEMA and is charging the agency only
Halliburton hired for storm cleanup
for new jobs in the disaster area, both under its military existent $500,000 FEMA New Orleans-Southeast Louisiana Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan.
Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Cover Story 09 28 04
In 1993, President Clinton's new FEMA director, James Lee Witt, set the agency which recently won a $250,000 contract with Orlando, Fla., to help the city
CBS News | Lawmaker's Kin Win $108M FEMA Contract
Lawmaker's Kin Win $108M FEMA Contract. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 15, 2005 storm that struck Aug. 29. The New Orleans-area motorcycle shop owned by Rep.
Privatizing FEMA for New Orleans? | MetaFilter
Privatizing FEMA for New Orleans? September 3, 2005 12:02 AM PST City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the
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New Orleans, but thanks to the federal government's $30 million contract bonanza, Bush After He Said to FEMA Chief Michael Brown, 'Brownie, You're
FEMA Extends Ex-Chief's Contract, Homeland Chief Defends Decision To Employ Brown 30 Extra Days - CBS News
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff defended FEMA's along the Gulf Coast, flooded New Orleans and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands.
Corps Insider Wins New Orleans Levee Contract
(PEER) claims is "like hiring Michael Brown to reform FEMA," a firm led by the massive federal contract to repair the New Orleans flood control system
WNY Media Network - WNY's Online Alternative - FEMA Outsourced New Orleans Disaster Plans
existent $500,000 FEMA New Orleans-Southeast Louisiana Catastrophic Hurricane contract was written, but, "After the proposal was submitted to FEMA,
GAO-06-714T Hurricane Katrina: Improving Federal Contracting Practices in Disaster Recovery Operations
and send them to FEMA, which writes and awards the contract or passes Hurricane Katrina: Status of the Health Care System in New Orleans contract+fema+new+orleans: contract+fema+new+orleans