Pundita

[ 2004] The only time she drew any attention that morning came in House Committee Room 1, where Wayne Parent, a Louisiana State University p...

Members of Congress have been studying a report titled New Orleans Levees and Floodwalls: Hurricane Damage Protection . We should also study...

On Tuesday, President George W. Bush reversed course by announcing to the nation that to "the extent the federal government didn't ...

Report featured on NBC Nightly News tonight(1): Is the Orleans Levee Board doing its job? Critics allege corruption, charge the board with w...

Reviewing a reader's question about corruption in Peru's construction industry reminds Pundita that two states famous for corruption...

When Paul Wolfowitz took over the presidency of the World Bank he identified corruption as a major obstacle to development in the poorest co...

See today's earlier post ( Hidden in plain sight ) for full text of Governor Blanco's Friday, August 26 declaration of a state of em...

10:00 AM Update A reader (thanks, Ben!)informed me that my memory was in error; Governor Blanco declared a state of emergency on Friday the ...

Thanks to Liz for sending me this diary of one man's odyssey in his 'deuce' vehicle to help survivors in Biloxi and New Orleans....

Yesterday President George Bush declared Friday, September 16 a national day of prayer and remembrance for the victims of Hurricane Katrina....

Even at this early stage, one inarguable fact towers above whatever blame might be attached to agencies and individual officials for the hor...

During the early stages of a catastrophic event, as with war, the first reports are often woefully incomplete or simply wrong. Yet from the ...