During last night’s debate between Maggie Brooks and Louise Slaughter, WROC anchor Maureen McGuire asked the candidates whether, in light of Hurricane Sandy, they’d supporting cutting funding for or eliminating FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Both candidates said they want to keep FEMA intact and preserve its funding. But Brooks’ response had another element; […]
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The city of New Orleans
“There was no way we could have predicted this kind of catastrophe.” — Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. While we send money to help the victims; while doctors and nurses treat the injured, the ill, the traumatized; while the displaced mourn their losses and continue their frantic search for loved ones; while law enforcement officers […]
