New Orleans Landfills, Prone to Flooding, Remain Controversial – and Possibly Dangerous – for City Residents

This week, The Washington Independent is featuring a series of investigative stories on the rebuilding of New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Find all of them here.

In the late summer of 1965 — almost 40 years to the day before Hurricane Katrina — Betsy, a Category Four More…

Epitaph to an Era of Big Government Contracting

Thomas Frank has a terrific op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, praising President Obama’s recent presidential memorandum declaring the end of an era of unrestrained government outsourcing.

The president “meant to put the kibosh on the GOP’s favorite method for spreading the wealth around,” Frank writes, noting the More…

A New Day for Accountability in Stimulus Plan

Amid the Democrats’ boostering and the Republicans’ assaults on the final stimulus package, almost no one is focusing on a key part of the bill that will be critical to making it work: accountability for how that $787 billion is spent. In fact, a look at the final bill reveals More…