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Published: 07/23/10

Opinion: In Government, You Fail Up

By  John Merline - AOL News
Opinion: In Government, You Fail Up

(July 23) -- Want to know why the federal government often seems so inept? Maybe it's because the one sure-fire way to get a bigger budget for your agency is to fail spectacularly. Consider this revealing story, buried at the end of the part one of The Washington Post's massive investigative series this week on the post 9/11 national security system. The story tells what happened after the government managed to let Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with a bomb last Christmas. Did heads roll? People get fired? Not exactly. Instead, National Counterterrorism ...

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Published: 07/19/10

Great Lakes States Sue to Keep Monster Fish at Bay

By  Lisa Holewa - AOL News
Great Lakes States Sue to Keep Monster Fish at Bay

(July 19) -- Five Great Lakes states are suing Chicago's water department and the Army Corps of Engineers in an effort to keep the invasive Asian carp out of Lake Michigan and protect the Great Lakes from the hungry species. The federal lawsuit, filed today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, comes less than a month after a 20-pound Asian carp was found near the Lake Michigan shoreline, confirming fears that the species has moved past electric barriers meant to keep it out of the Great Lakes. The lawsuit seeks an order to close Chicago shipping locks that provide a ...

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Published: 07/7/10

Oil Fouls New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain

By  Lauren Frayer - AOL News
Oil Fouls New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain

(July 7) -- Oil seeping into New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf of Mexico spill is threatening the pristine estuary's fragile ecosystem less than 20 years after what experts describe as a "dramatic turnabout" in its pollution levels. The fact that oil has turned up in the lake, a 630-square-mile inland bay popular with boaters and fishermen, is a psychological blow to New Orleans. The city, more than 100 miles from the gulf, had hoped to avoid much of the gloom that's beset coastal towns more severely affected by America's worst-ever oil spill. "People love the lake, and they ...

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Published: 06/16/09

Katrina Postscript: Red Tape and Sniping Leave New Orleans in Danger

By  Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily
Katrina Postscript: Red Tape and Sniping Leave New Orleans in Danger

Nearly four years after Hurricane Katrina, key fixes to New Orleans' levee system remain unaddressed because local authorities, members of Congress and the Army Corps of Engineers still have not agreed on which steps are necessary to protect the city from catastrophic flooding. At a sometimes contentious Capitol Hill hearing today on the readiness of New Orleans' levee system, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers' Mississippi Valley Division told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that construction on a permanent solution for three crucial Katrina flood points has not yet ...

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