**June 12, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CORPS OF ENGINEERS:

Clarion-Ledger (MS). \"Katrina: Corps Thrown Back In The Briar Patch,\"

5June2006. Accessed at:
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060605/OPINION01/606050302/1008/OPINION>

Morial, Marc H. (President and CEO, National Urban League).

\"Independent Inspection Of America\'s Flood Control System Is Necessary
To Avert A Repeat of Katrina.\" Louisiana Weekly, June 5, 2006. Accessed
at:

[[http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20060605b]{.underline}](http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20060605b)

\(2\) DISASTERS WAITING TO HAPPEN:

Bradenton Herald (FL). \"Lessons Unlearned\" (Editorial), June 5, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/opinion/14734969.htm]{.underline}](http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/opinion/14734969.htm)

Helvarg, David. \"Catastrophes In The Making.\" Miami Herald, June 6,
2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/14749093.htm]{.underline}](http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/14749093.htm)

\(3\) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE, JUNE 4-7, 2007:

Have communicated with all three developers and speakers for the two
conference workshops on GIS in Emergency Management and Homeland
Security, and all three are willing to put on similar workshops at next
years 10th Annual By-Invitation Emergency Management Higher Education
Conference \-- on Monday June 4th \-- using both computer labs
simultaneously next year \-- doing basic GIS in EM orientation in one
room and more advanced training in the other.

Have also talked with Tom Marlowe on the staff here at EMI and he is
willing to put on a half-day workshop on the Incident Command System and
related topics.

\(4\) FEMA:

Baker, Mike. \"Chertoff: FEMA Still Short of Hiring Goals.\" Associated
Press, June 7, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060607/APN/606070779>

\[Excerpt: \"The Federal Emergency Management Agency will not meet its
hiring goals by the end of hurricane season and still lacks key
officials in the regions most vulnerable to natural disaster, Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday. Short about 500
workers - one-fifth of the work force - two months ago, FEMA officials
initially said they would have 95 percent of their openings filled by
mid-May. That date was later pushed to June 1 - the beginning of the
hurricane season - and then discarded altogether.\" Like they say, some
things change and some things stay the same.\]

Evans, Ben. \"Subpanel Votes to Remove Disaster Housing From FEMA.\"

Congress Daily, June 9, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34300&dcn=e_gvet]{.underline}](http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34300&dcn=e_gvet)

Hogue, Henry B. and Keith Bea. Federal Emergency Management and Homeland
Security Organization: Historical Developments and Legislative Options
(CRS Report for Congress RL33369). Washington, DC: Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress. June 1, 2006 (update of April 19,
2006 document). Accessed at:

<http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:n-3j8-qa1UwJ:www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RL33369.pdf+Federal+Emergency+Management+and+Homeland+Security+Organization&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2>

Foley, Mark (U.S. Representative, R-FL). \"Hurricane Season Brings

Urgency To Fixing FEMA.\" The Hill, June 6, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/OpEd/060606.html]{.underline}](http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/OpEd/060606.html)

\(5\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Arkin, William. \"Back To The Bunker.\" Washington Post, June 4, 2006.

Accessed at:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201410.html>

Gelinas, Nicole. \"The Feds\' Foul.\" New York Post, June 6, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/69606.htm]{.underline}](http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/69606.htm)

\[About perceptions of what homeland security is and how NYC may be
focused in building capability and how DHS on technology and equipment,
which each city should have only a finite need.\]

Greenberg, Karen J. \"A World of Difference: Homeland Security versus
New York City.\" The Washington Note, June 8, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001451.php]{.underline}](http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001451.php)

\[Note: This opinion piece can be read from a \"DHS Culture\" point of
view \-- one, to whatever extent accurate, is at variance with
\"Emergency Management Culture and Principles.\" If there is something
to this, it would be profitable to reflect on outside perceptions of DHS
culture and the core principles of emergency management in addressing
the issue of creating a Department of Homeland Security culture \-- the
subject of a forthcoming Homeland Security Advisory Council meeting.\]

\(6\) MITIGATION:

Hayes, Robert. \"Don\'t Charge Others For Coastal Insurance.\" Clarian
Ledger (MS), June 4, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060604/OPINION02/606020386>

\(7\) PREPAREDNESS:

Bernstein, Sharon. \"No Funds To Print Disaster Pamphlet - L.A. County
Says It Does Not Have \$30,000 to Distribute A Booklet To Help People
With Special Needs Survive After An Earthquake.\" Los Angeles Times,
June 8, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-quake8jun08,1,352959.story]{.underline}](http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-quake8jun08,1,352959.story)

\(8\) TERRORISM:

Cruickshank, Paul and Mohannad Hage Ali. \"Jihadist of Mass
Destruction.\" Washington Post, June 11, 2006. Accessed at:

[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR200606
0901972.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR200606 0901972.html)

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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