According to a Washington Post report published on Saturday, March 25, 2006:
An organization of civil engineers questioned the soundness of large portions of New Orleans's levee system, warning that the city's federally designed flood walls were not built to standards stringent enough to protect a large city.

The group faulted the agency responsible for the levees, the Army Corps of Engineers, for adopting safety standards that were "too close to the margin" to protect human life.
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How did DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty lose the love of so many black women -- the most faithful and forgiving constituents a black man in public office can have? The answer: He worked at it, went out of his way to snub and disrespect even the most revered sisters of distinction.
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As a Black woman in America, I have never known a time in my life when I have felt more unsafe, vulnerable and unprotected. This acute sense of insecurity is sometimes a challenge to articulate.
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Dear BBN Members, Friends and Supporters: We have decided to take advantage of the slow news month and use the remainder of August to conduct Behind-the-Scenes planning and development. We will remain on hiatus until Tuesday, September 7th, 2010.
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On March 21st BBN was the first news outlet to report the story 'Jail Playground at NYC Public Housing Property. ’ By March 23rd all of New York news media leaped on the story that some in the press referred to as the City's ‘JungleJail-Gate.
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This is the image I walked by during my morning commute today. It is yet another New York City Newsstand vendor exploiting the image of Black and Afro-Latino women – maybe even breaking the law - while going to great lengths to protect the image of White women on equally provocative magazine covers.
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