Michael Barone

Katrina

By U.S. News Staff

September 7, 2005 RSS Feed Print
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A valuable resource in assessing what went wrong (and right) in the response to Katrina is this timeline, compiled by blogger Rick Moran from the New Orleans Times-Picayune website.

The best source for New Orleans hurricane insight has been the blog of Brendan Loy, a 23-year-old law student at Notre Dame University. Loy, armed only with publicly available information from the National Weather Service and others, warned early on for an evacuation of the city.

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Michael Barone

Michael Barone

Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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