Tag: FEMA
‘It’s like nobody cares’: After two weeks without running water, Jackson, Miss. pleads for help
From the Wire March 2, 2021
“Water is a basic necessity and it just brought a lot of frustration, anger, and disappointment,” said one of the city’s residents. “If you don’t know when it’s coming back, what is being done to help…
The Trump Administration paid millions for test tubes — and got unusable mini soda bottles
From the Wire June 18, 2020
The plastic tubes supplied for coronavirus testing by Fillakit, a first-time federal contractor with a sketchy owner, don’t even fit the racks used to analyze samples. And they may be contaminated anyway. by J. David McSwane…
Puerto Rico two years after hurricane Maria
Wade Rathke Meteor Columnist January 4, 2020
San Juan Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico a little over two years ago on September 17, 2017, with more force as a Cat-5 storm than any in the recorded history of the island. In San Juan,…
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