Connecticut halts all foreclosures for all banks
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Friday ordered a moratorium on all foreclosures by all banks for 60 days--the most radical action taken by a state on issue of document irregularities.California also expanded the moratorium on foreclosures it announced last week on Ally Financial foreclosures to include those by J.P. ...
Obama eyes options for naming Warren as regulator
President Barack Obama edged closer to naming Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren as his new top consumer financial watchdog on Tuesday, but lawmakers were split over how he should do it.Obama is deciding whether to pick Warren, a Harvard law professor and outspoken consumer advocate backed by liberals but reviled ...
CEO layoff leaders also led in pay in '09: study
BOSTON (Reuters) – As U.S. companies shed millions of workers during the recession, the CEOs who laid off the most people brought home pay that was significantly higher than that of their peers, a study released on Thursday found.The CEOs of the 50 U.S. companies that laid off the most ...
Petrofac Wins EPC Deal At Iraq Majnoon Field-Official
AMMAN (Dow Jones) — U.K.-based oil and gas services company Petrofac Ltd. has won an engineering, procurement and construction contract to build two crude-oil processing plants at Iraq's super giant Majnoon oil field, a senior Iraqi oil official said Thursday. The contract was awarded to Petrofac by Iraq's state-run South ...
For a Former Panther, Solidarity After the Storm
By Michelle Garcia / Washington Post NEW ORLEANS -- Malik Rahim, a granddaddy with a broad face and long gray dreadlocks, leans across his wooden kitchen table and with a low Nawlins growl lets you know what he thinks local pols did for racial harmony."I'm far from being a Republican, ...
Katrina victims yet to be identified
Three months after storm, DNA testing hasn't begun NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans' coroner expressed outrage Tuesday that the process of using DNA to identify more than 200 bodies left from Hurricane Katrina has not begun because the state of Louisiana has not signed contracts with firms that ...
Adviser: No Federal Promise on La. Levees
By Doug Simpson / Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. - The White House's top hurricane-relief adviser said Tuesday he has not decided whether the federal government should pay to make New Orleans' levees stronger than they were before Katrina. Donald Powell declined to say how long it would take before ...
It's time for a nation to return the favor
The Times-Picayune The federal government wrapped levees around greater New Orleans so that the rest of the country could share in our bounty. Americans wanted the oil and gas that flow freely off our shores. They longed for the oysters and shrimp and flaky Gulf fish that live in abundance ...
La. toll rises as evacuees find dead in return to homes
By Kevin Johnson and Richard Willing / USA TODAY More than a month after the official search for victims of Hurricane Katrina ended, the death toll in Louisiana has jumped by 104 as returning families in the New Orleans area continue to find bodies. Many of the newly discovered victims ...
"Yes, she's come so far and is such a sweet girl through it all."
By Andrew Pridgen / Tahoe Daily Tribune She's finally home. Savannah, the tawny-haired shepherd mix left homeless in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, experienced a journey that took her from Louisiana to Houston to San Francisco to Marin County to Sacramento and finally to Incline Village's Pet Network. Friday, she ...
By Melissa M. Scallan / Mississippi Sun Herald GULFPORT - State and local emergency management agencies want to have everyone displaced by Hurricane Katrina in travel trailers by the end of the year. Robert Latham, director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, was in South Mississippi on Wednesday and said ...
Inquiry to Seek Cause of Levee Failure
By Christopher Drew / New York Times The Louisiana Attorney General said Tuesday that he had begun examining why the New Orleans levees failed during Hurricane Katrina, partly to increase the chances that people who lost their homes will be compensated for their losses. Attorney General Charles C. Foti Jr. ...
New Orleans Is Still Grappling With the Basics of Rebuilding
By Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times This article was reported by Adam Nossiter, Gary Rivlin, John Schwartz, Eric Lipton and Jennifer Steinhauer and was written by Ms. Steinhauer. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 7 - Something once unimaginable has begun to happen here: the United Parcel Service is delivering again downtown. ...
Converge in New Orleans in a Showing of Solidarity! November 20-27 in New Orleans -- organized by Common Ground Come lend a hand over the week of Thanksgiving until November 27th. That's less than four weeks away! The folks at Common Ground invite you to join an estimated 300 volunteers ...
It's been nearly two months since Katrina leveled much of east Biloxi, Miss., where weary residents are tired of FEMA's promises. By Ellen Barry / Los Angeles Times BILOXI, Miss. — In the afternoon, when it is warm, Valentina and Gary Stilwell can almost forget there are no walls around ...
Island pair off to help in New Orleans
By Karla Araujo / Martha's Vineyard Times When most of us watched the news coverage of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, we reacted with shock and disbelief. Some reached for checkbooks to make donations to charities, others simply returned to their daily lives, grateful that we live on an island off ...
Slater man heads to gulf region to aid hurricane victims
By Eric Coley / Marshall Democrat-News Last week, Slater resident Archie Wayne Blumhorst decided to head to the Gulf Coast region to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Blumhorst loaded up his old Ford pickup with items that he and his wife, Wanita, gathered either through their own contributions or donations ...
From Jason I have been touring the Mississippi Gulf Coast for the past few days and I simply cannot believe what I have seen. The entire coast of Mississippi is flattened. I know that everyone has heard this on the news but until you see it for yourself it doesn't ...
The Hurricane Relief camp is currently stationed in Theodore, Alabama. Cops have come by to warn us that this is a "bad neighborhood" and we should be careful. "Park the cars as close to the house as possible." We have invited the neighbors to BBQ, put tarps on their leaky ...
The Front Porch, Elmo St. House
Update from Ralph, Tennessee Writing from this porch is a pleasure tonight, with just a small breeze across the bow of this ship. Speaking of ships, I will tell you of what I saw today. I saw a barge, nearly 3 football fields in length and close to 40 feet ...
Update from Tami McMahon, RN, Seattle, Washington
Worked at a church clinic today in Biloxi, MS. Met the most extraordinary group of women who live in this neighborhood. Many had toddlers/babes in tow. Sat with them and listened after giving tetanus shots. Heard their stories of being submerged in the "black water from the back bay" as ...
Jason writes: Today we went to St. Bernard's Parish in New Orleans. I had heard a lot about it on the local radio and really wanted to see it. It is just next to the 9th Ward and it was totally under water. The kicker for St. Bernard is that ...
By Eric Weinrib, Web Editor, MichaelMoore.comBefore Rita hit, we rented a 26' truck and literally packed up Camp Casey-Covington. Tents, coolers, boxes and bags were loaded for transport. The bulk of the volunteers hunkered down at a church in Tylertown, Mississippi while the rest of us headed to Mobile, AL ...
Do-it-yourself activists, aiming to feed the hungry, bring water to the thirsty and fix the broken homes of their neighbors By Alex Martin / Newsday On the day that Hurricane Rita frayed what was left of the nerves of this frazzled city, intensifying to a Katrina-like monster and jogging ever ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
'The East'
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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