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Newsview: Governors worry over Katrina
Sep 7 2005 9:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - No strangers to bureaucratic bungling and turf wars, the nation's governors watched in horror as government agencies handled Hurricane Katrina with glaring incompetence _ and now worry that the next disaster could deal their states the same ugly fate.
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FEMA head bears the brunt of Katrina anger
Sep 7 2005 9:12PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - He's been called an idiot, an incompetent and worse. The vilification of federal disaster chief Michael Brown, emerging as chief scapegoat for whatever went wrong in the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, has ratcheted into the stratosphere. Democratic members of Congress are taking numbers to call for his head.
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First steps to rebuild roads begin
Sep 7 2005 6:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The long, slow and expensive process of rebuilding roads and bridges destroyed by Hurricane Katrina began Wednesday as local transportation departments entered into the first few reconstruction contracts.
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Post office trying to get mail to evacuees
Sep 7 2005 3:26PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The post office has delivered some 15,000 Social Security checks at collection points in the area affected by Hurricane Katrina, officials said Wednesday. But the agency is still trying to locate 2,000 of its workers.
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