The facts are hard to deny regarding the benefits of receiving the seasonal flu shot, and the reasonable arguments against it are few. If Emergency Management is trying to mitigate [...]
I asked the question: "Are we better prepared post September 11, 2001?" We discussed "Are we safer, both here in the United States, and since we declared a global war [...]
This settlement sends a message and sets a clear precedent on how future performance of hospitals during disasters will be judged. In conducting the cost benefit assessment of disaster preparedness, [...]
A recent story about the deaths of a woman and injury to others points out the gaps that remain after untold billions of dollars spent on response to terrorism programs. [...]
With all the pontificating about having thwarted all kinds of terrors attacks in and past ten years at massive cost, why now the sudden disclosure of a credible threat? Why [...]
I’d like to pose a two part question. Part one, if tomorrow was that last day of your life, what would you choose to do? Would it be spent [...]
Not invited to the ceremony in NYC marking the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, are representatives of the public safety agencies that responded the day that almost 3,000 people [...]
I recently saw an article talking about Responding to Mass Shootings. It read like an old worn out sneaker, comfortable but stinky and ugly. Why are we still talking about [...]
Working on New Madrid project, I read DOE reports which indicated no problems for nuclear plants in the shake zone. Scientific reports were one thing and I tend to follow [...]
Having worked at the federal level and state level on planning efforts for a New Madrid earthquake, and following on the heels of NLE-11, I was fascinated to read the [...]