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In recognition of National Preparedness Month and in honor of the anniversaries of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, this blog will be presenting a special series of “What Should We Tell The Public?” videos during September. Beginning today, Thursday, September 11th, and continuing everyday the rest of the month, the blog will feature a short video [...]

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I will be interviewed live tonight about the subject of preparedness by Gayle Falkenthal on KCBQ-AM 1170 in San Diego in case you live in their listening area. The show will also be streamed live (and archived) at http://kcbq.townhall.com/.
 

A photo I took at Ground Zero yesterday, September 10th, 2008

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One of the objectives to this blog is to highlight ways that average citizens can help law enforcement authorities on terrorism and other illegal activity, particularly utilizing new personal communications technology. To me, an important tangible (as well as symbolic) example is yesterday’s announcement from the New York Police Department that it wants civilians to [...]

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As part of National Preparedness Month, my local State Assemblyman, Jonathan Bing, held a special emergency readiness forum Monday night along with the American Red Cross of Greater New York and New York City’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM). The objective was to brief residents of Bing’s Manhattan district on preparing themselves for disasters and to publicize the [...]

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As the nation marks the anniversaries of Hurricane Katrina and the September 11th attacks, I spoke with Frances Fragos Townsend, President Bush’s former Homeland Security Advisor, about citizen preparedness. 
In the interview, I asked Townsend for her thoughts and recommendations on how the next Administration should approach the challenge of preparing and informing the public for [...]

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For the last week, I have been one of several Guest Bloggers for the American Red Cross’ “Red Cross Chat” blog. I thought I would bring to your attention two interesting posts from two of the other Guest Bloggers, David Stephenson and Robin Parker, two of the most innovative people I know when it comes to [...]

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I am in the Outer Banks of North Carolina this morning where my family and I have been vacationing. The area is getting ready for landfall, sometime later tonight and somewhere on the Carolina coast, of Tropical Storm Hanna — which forecasters say may strengthen to a Category 1 hurricane by nightfall.
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The widely-praised multi-agency/group response to Hurricane Gustav reinforced the importance of community preparedness and the crucial role of teamwork between all levels of government and stakeholders in responding to disasters. Helping to replicate that kind of effort in areas throughout the U.S. is one the major goals of the upcoming third-annual “National Congress For Secure Communities” conference in [...]

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Tomorrow, Matt Dallek, a good friend of this blog and a participant in our “What Should We Tell The Public?” video series, is beginning a 60-mile bike ride through the Civil War battlefields of Maryland to raise money for pancreatic cancer research at Johns Hopkins Medical School. I encourage you to read his inspiring letter about his [...]

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