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With New York and other states now debating the creation of a tax-free period for emergency preparedness supplies to spur public disaster readiness, I decided to check to see how the idea went in two states — Virginia and Louisiana — that tried it for the first time this May.
Though they have no sales figures [...]

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In the wake of the suicide of the ‘Anthrax Letters’ suspect, Bruce E. Ivins, there was an interesting article in Saturday’s Washington Post, “Yesterday’s Fears Fade As We Adapt To Tomorrow’s” about how we as humans process and deal with threats, and what the implications are for managing them in the future.
Post reporter Joel Garreau interviewed some [...]

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Thanks to the aforementioned Jennings Carney’s ”Partnership Update” via the On The Homefront blog of the Homeland Security Digital Library I learned of an interesting new report from the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute and Asian Pacific American Legal Center that found ”immigrant and limited English proficient populations are not fully incorporated in disaster preparedness educational efforts and emergency response plans”.
The press release for the [...]

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When Jennings Carney is not writing and editing the very helpful “Ready Communities Partnership Update” of the National Congress for Secure Communities, he is on the keyboardist of the band Pontiak.
In June, Jennings and the band were touring the Midwest in support of their new album Kale. They found themselves in the midst of the terrible weather and [...]

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I wanted to bring your attention to About.com’s Terrorism Issues site written by Amy Zalman. It’s a helpful resource I’ve been using for the last couple years. I subscribe to her free weekly newsletter, and she also has a blog. The main site is a very good resource with articles, fact sheets and other features on terrorism.
This week, [...]

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The suicide of U.S. Army scientist Bruce E. Ivins may finally solve the ‘Anthrax Letters’ case. Almost seven years ago, letters with anthrax powder began appearing across the country and eventually resulted in the deaths of five people. One of those deaths came very close to home for me and my family. And it turned out [...]

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I am very excited and a little proud that Roger Ma, a frequent contributor to this blog, has been selected as the Team Chief of the new Community Board #7 CERT team for the Sunset Park/Windsor Terrace area of Brooklyn.
As readers may recall, Roger contacted me in the Spring after I discussed my own involvement in [...]

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