Pine Belt Progressive

It looks like the discussion of the port renovations and the formaldehyde cover-up in the greater blogosphere has just about played out. My next step on the issue is to go through the Steps Coalition Report Card with a fine-toothed comb and to do the same for the governor’s recovery plan. It is very important to be alert to opportunities to raise public awareness of the issue. I encourage folks to keep writing about it and keep sending out the facts that I’ve put together up to this point. A few more links are below.

A Federal judge dismissed the class action lawsuits filed against the Corps of Engineers over the condition of the New Orleans flood walls this week. Too Sense discusses the injustice of this decision in a post today that will make you very angry at the government.

Countificus at DK picked up our action alert on the port renovations from Cotton Mouth on Jan. 26, but I just discovered it today. A big thanks to Count for helping to spread the word.

Benjamin T. Greenberg of Hungry Blues wrote a good post yesterday that covers several of the issues we’ve been working on here, and includes links for further reading.

And here’s a site you may wish to bookmark: Katrina-in-Mississippi.

I’ve learned some things over the past week that I plan to share as soon as I have time to write about them.