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The Department of Homeland Security has just released the transcript of Monday’s ”Blogger Roundtable” on emergency preparedness with Secretary Chertoff and FEMA Administrator Paulison held at DHS Headquarters in Washington, D.C. 
I had the opportunity to join Jonah Czerwinski of Homeland Security Watch and Rich Cooper of Security Debrief as one of three questioners.
It was a lively, back and forth discussion of emergency preparedness, much of it focusing on the role of the […]

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The transcript of my Washingtonpost.com online discussion Monday on civilian preparedness can be found at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/05/16/DI2008051603186.html
Sorry for the lack of capitalization. It was my first online discussion, and I was trying to keep up with the questions.  
 

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I will be participating in a washingtonpost.com online discussion today at Noon.  The subject will be the article I wrote in the Outlook section on citizen preparedness.
If you’re near a computer, please jump on. Just follow this link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/05/16/DI2008051603186.html

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I have a piece on citizen preparedness in today’s Washington Post “Outlook” section. It can be found through this link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603735.html
If you are arriving at the blog on for the first time as a result of the article, welcome. I hope you stick around.
I would love to hear any comments, criticisms, or questions about the story or anything regarding citizen emergency preparedness.
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In recent posts, I have suggested a number of websites for readers interested in citizen preparedness. Today, I am happy to be able to recommend my first radio show, “Homeland Security Inside & Out“.
HLSI&O is produced out of KAMU-FM, the local NPR affiliate in College Station, Texas. It is hosted by Dave McIntyre, Director of the Integrative Center for Homeland Security at […]

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I don’t know how interesting and helpful my ‘Are You Ready’ series was for most of Brian Lehrer’s listeners on WNYC. However, I was thrilled to hear that it may have at least had a small, albeit important, constructive impact on New York City’s emergency efforts.
Roger, a listener from Brooklyn, New York, emailed me through this site after the second episode to […]

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Thank you for all the emergency preparedness questions called or emailed in during the fourth installment of the Brian Lehrer Show’s ‘Are You Ready’ series. Though I’m not sure I’m knowledgeable enough to be dubbed a preparedness guru, I hope the series was somewhat informative on an issue — public emergency preparedness – that doesn’t always get a […]

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This morning was the fourth and final installment of the month-long Are You Ready series I have been doing on WNYC’s the “Brian Lehrer Show”. An audio file is at the Brian Lehrer Show website. It was really interesting and enjoyable for me to talk about citizen preparedness and in particular to get the comments and questions from […]

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Tomorrow, for the last segment of the “Are You Ready?” series I have been doing in April on the “Brian Lehrer Show”, we are soliciting questions on emergency preparedness that I will try to answer on the show. There is a page now on the show’s website for listeners to send in their queries on any aspect of preparedness. I will try to […]

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The third installment of the ‘Are You Ready’ series I am doing on the “The Brian Lehrer Show” is now available on the web. Just click thru to the show page and scroll down.
 
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