**August 23, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) DISASTERS WAITING TO HAPPEN:

KQTV Online (St. Joseph, MO). \"Decade-Long Study Shows Levees Need
Repairs.\" August 23, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.kq2.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=3917]{.underline}](http://www.kq2.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=3917)

Shaw, Hank. \"So Long Flood Bills, We Hardly Knew You - Levee
Legislation on Hold Until Next Year.\" Recordnet.com, August 23, 2006.
Accessed at:

<http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060823/NEWS01/608230313/1001>

\(2\) GLOBAL WARMING:

Matlock, Staci. \"Climate Change: State Report Warns Of Lasting Changes
To Water Flows, Supplies.\" New Mexican, August 22, 2006. At:

[[http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/48190.html]{.underline}](http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/48190.html)

NewsMax (FL). \"Americans Link Katrina, Global Warming.\" August 21,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/21/211205.shtml]{.underline}](http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/21/211205.shtml)

Ponte, Lowell. \"Summer Heat Waves - Global Warming or Just Hot Air?\"

NemsMax.com, August 16, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/8/15/184758.shtml]{.underline}](http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/8/15/184758.shtml)

\(3\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Hughes, John. \"U.S. Fails On Security Scorecard.\" Christian Science
Monitor, August 23, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0823/p09s02-cojh.html]{.underline}](http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0823/p09s02-cojh.html)

\(4\) KATRINA:

Anderson, Ed. \"Mayor: B.R. Is Doormat For Feds - They\'re Dictating To
Us On Relief Role, He Says.\" New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 22,
2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-6/115622450090990.xml&coll=1>

\[Excerpt: \"On another matter, Holden took issue with New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin\'s comments last week that racism has slowed the recovery of
New Orleans from the hurricane. In a speech at the annual meeting of the
National Association of Black Journalists, Nagin said that if a disaster
had hit the Miami area or Orange County, Calif., two areas with
predominately white populations, the government\'s aid response would
have been quicker. \'I don\'t want to blame it on racism,\' Holden said
of the recovery efforts in south Louisiana, \'but on people in positions
(of authority) who have bogged down the process. It is ineptness, not
racism\'.\"\]

Callimachi, Rukmini. \"Reports Document Failures Post-Katrina.\"

Associated Press, August 22, 2006. At:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082200988.html>

Joseph, Channing. \"Police Chief Says He Exaggerated Post-Katrina.\" New
York Sun, August 21, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nysun.com/article/38268]{.underline}](http://www.nysun.com/article/38268)

\[Excerpt: \"\'In hindsight, I guess I heightened people\'s fears by me
being the superintendent of police, reporting these things that were
reported to me,\' Mr. Compass said of the unverified accounts of crime
and disorder in flooded New Orleans that he repeated to the press and on
\'The Oprah Winfrey Show.\' \'But there was really no way for me to
check definitively. So instead I erred on the side of caution. I didn\'t
want people to think we were trying to cover anything up. So I repeated
these things without being substantiated, and it caused a lot of
problems,\' he said.\"\]

Liu, Amy. Building A Better New Orleans: A Review and Plan for Progress
One Year After Hurricane Katrina. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution,
August 2006, 48 pages. Accessed at:
[[http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20060822_Katrina.htm]{.underline}](http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20060822_Katrina.htm)

\[Abstract: \"One year since the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina,
recovery in New Orleans continues to lag. Many ascribe the little
visible progress in the region to the slow pace of federal spending and
decision-making. Yet, in this paper, Amy Liu argues that the billions of
dollars of public investment and the overall federal, state, and local
recovery performance must help remake the New Orleans region better than
it was before. This paper reviews the post-hurricane recovery effort,
highlights areas of progress, and offers a plan for ensuring that future
policies create a more inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous New
Orleans.\"\]

White House. \"Press Briefing on Gulf Coast Recovery.\" Washington, DC:

Office of the Press Secretary, August 22, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060822-5.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060822-5.html)

\[Press Briefing by Federal Coordinator for the Office of Gulf Coast
Rebuilding, Don Powell; FEMA Director David Paulison, and Corps of
Engineers Commander, Lt. General Carl Strock \-- on Gulf Coast Recovery,
approximately 18 pages.\]

\(5\) MITIGATION:

Chambers, Steve and Jeff Whelan. \"New Rules Good For Rivers, Not So
Great For Builders.\" Star Ledger (Newark, NJ), August 23, 2006.
Accessed at:

<http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1156310353169680.xml&coll=1>

Dopp, Terrance. \"Corzine Details Flood Plan.\" Express-Times (NJ),
August 23, 2006. Accessed at:
<http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-3/115630597669980.xml&coll=2>

Easton Express-Times (PA). \"Regional Approach Needed on Flooding,\"

August 21, 2006. At:
<http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/expresstimes/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1156219552236900.xml&coll=2>

\(6\) PREPAREDNESS:

Anderson, Ed. \"Mayor: B.R. Is Doormat For Feds - They\'re Dictating To
Us On Relief Role, He Says.\" New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 22,
2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-6/115622450090990.xml&coll=1>

\[Excerpt: \"Baton Rouge government is being left out of the loop as

federal officials again target the city as a major emergency relief
center for this storm season, Mayor-President Kip Holden said
Monday\.... \'We are being dictated to (by the U.S. Office of Homeland
Security and FEMA) without any involvement in the process,\" Holden
said. \"Democracy has gone out the window. There is no more dialogue.
This is a monologue.\"\]

Insurance Journal. Coalition Says Insurer Group\'s Disaster Plan is
Insufficient.\" August 22, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2006/08/22/71620.htm]{.underline}](http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2006/08/22/71620.htm)

Manning, Anita. \"Disaster Chief: U.S. Government, Citizens Alike Are
Unprepared - Book Poses Five Scary Scenarios, Offers Strategies.\" USA
Today, August 23, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20060823/bl_riskbook.art.htm]{.underline}](http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20060823/bl_riskbook.art.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"It\'s a dangerous world. And even five years after 9/11,
the nation remains far from ready to respond in an effective way to a
major disaster such as a terror attack or a flu pandemic, says Irwin
Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at
Columbia University\'s Mailman School of Public Health. In his new book,
Americans at Risk (Knopf, \$24), Redlener urges the federal government
to develop a cohesive, coordinated approach to disaster planning - and
Americans to emerge from a state of national denial. The warnings about
potential \'megadisasters\' are being heard by Americans, Redlener
writes, but \'we don\'t quite know what we\'re supposed to do. \...
Mostly we hope against hope that calamity isn\'t around the
corner\'.\"\]

Malone, Julia. \"Amtrak Brings Out Old Rail Cars As Part Of Standby
Evacuation Plans.\" Cox News Service, August 22, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.oxfordpress.com/hp/content/shared/news/stories/FEMA_AMTRAK22_COX_W4918.html>

New Orleans Times-Picayune. \"Spread the Word.\" August 22, 2006.

Accessed at:
<http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-3/115622489090990.xml&coll=1>

\[Excerpt: \"\...public officials seem to have done their homework in
preparing evacuation plans for the more than 30,000 people estimated to
need public transportation and shelter the next time a bad storm churns
our way. Those plans, however, remain something of a mystery to the
people who will need them most. Officials have done little so far to
publicize the specifics of the plans.\"\]

Wyatt, Kristen. \"Md. Looks To Set Up An Animal Disaster Plan.\"

Associated Press, August 21, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=598&sid=887786]{.underline}](http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=598&sid=887786)

\(7\) WAR ON TERROR:

Bokhari, Farhan. \"Pakistan Fails To End Preoccupation With Jihad.\"

Financial Times, August 22, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8d58a5ac-316e-11db-b953-0000779e2340.html]{.underline}](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8d58a5ac-316e-11db-b953-0000779e2340.html)

Grahm, Michael. \"The Tragedy Continues.\" Jewish World Review, August
23, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://jewishworldreview.com/michael/graham082306.php3]{.underline}](http://jewishworldreview.com/michael/graham082306.php3)

\[Excerpt: One year ago this month, I was fired from my talk radio job
by ABC/Disney for saying on the air - and in these pages - that \'Islam
is a terrorist organization\'. My argument was very simple. Any
organization that allows terrorists to operate freely in its name; whose
ideology is, rightly or wrongly, used to justify and promote terrorism;
and whose membership includes, according to every international poll,
hundreds of millions of devotees who support suicide bombing - that
organization has a unique problem with terrorism\.... the tragedy is
that, nearly five years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still a member in
good standing of the Islamic faith. He has not been declared apostate.

His theology has not been denounced as heresy. The Koranic verses used
to inspire his murder have not been reformed or re-interpreted. His
supporters have not been cast out of their local mosques.\"\]

\(8\) WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY \-- NEW EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
ANNOUNCED:

PJStar.com. \"WIU To Offer 2 New Bachelor\'s Degree Programs.\" August
22, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.pjstar.com/stories/082206/REG_BAO5JGCE.017.shtml]{.underline}](http://www.pjstar.com/stories/082206/REG_BAO5JGCE.017.shtml)

B. Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM

Higher Education Project Manager

Emergency Management Institute

National Emergency Training Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Department of Homeland Security

16825 S. Seton, N-430

Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

\(301\) 447-1598, fax

wayne.blanchard@dhs.gov

[[http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu]{.underline}](http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu)

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