[In the Sept. 3 article] Katrina revives old lessons, ... We are going to try to define our limits as a society and do it to the best of our ability. |
but we were told Friday that they [FEMA] had put $39 million in the bank. |
He was an old-school journalist who believed in having his facts straight. |
Here less is more, |
Houston is a business town, and we'll go after all the business we can get. |
I'm not privy to what the investigators are doing or saying or talking about. We're going to let them do their jobs. |
If you announced a shelter, what we would have had is people who were fearful would have rushed to the shelter and they would have been overwhelmed and the people on the streets would be crowded out, |
Is it unfair to the people who have been on the waiting list for years? Probably. But it's the reality of dealing with a crisis situation, |
It's always a major undertaking when you get that many people coming from so many places around the country and from around the world. We've had a lot of practice at it. |
People need to begin to take responsibility for themselves. |
The city of Houston has a $2 billion-a-year budget, ... so $3 million is not going to make or break your city budget. |
The justification cited was increased costs of services and supplies. We don't have any written documentation. |
The state law is clear ... they are required to take the test at the same time and in the same place so they're all together. The way they grade the tests, everyone stays in the room and they go over the answers and people are free to question. |
The weekend meeting was set up shortly after that. |
They are basically doing what we do when we get extremely cold conditions, |