NO QUICK EXIT DURING DRY RUN Houston Chronicle 5/5/06 With predictions that the hurricane season starting next month might produce nearly double the storms usually seen, authorities staging a statewide mock evacuation this week acknowledge they cannot prevent lengthy evacuation times. HARRIS COUNTY OFFICIALS VOW THEY’RE MORE PREPARED FOR STORMS RESCUERS TREAT ‘EUNICE’ LIKE THE REAL THING HURRICANE DESTRUCTION POWERS…
By Ella Tyler If you are not familiar with the contemporary Vanity Fair, don’t be put off by the name. Yes, there’s still plenty of celebrity gossip and glossy advertising, but the magazine also has a reputation for publishing serious articles. And it has outdone itself with its first green issue.
FEMA NEEDS TO BE SCRAPPED, SENATORS SAY Houston Chronicle 4/26/06 WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency was so fundamentally dysfunctional during Hurricane Katrina that Congress should abolish it and create a new disaster response agency from scratch, a draft bipartisan Senate report has concluded. KEY RECOMMENDATIONS BY KATRINA INQUIRY BUSH ACTS TO EASE HIGH GASOLINE PRICES Houston Chronicle 4/25/06…