In Case Of Emergency, Read Blog

Last December, I attended the second-annual “National Congress For Secure Communities” conference in Washington, D.C. I found it quite interesting and helpful in large part because it was the rare national gathering that focuses on community emergency preparedness and brings together participants from all sectors of society to work on a subject that does not […]

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I am in Chicago this week for the third in a series of fascinating Aspen Institute roundtable discussions examining individual cities’ (and the nation’s) “preparedness for another 9/11-scale terror attack and another Hurricane Katrina-scale natural disaster.”  
The three-day Aspen workshops bring together the area’s leading officials and experts from the government, business, academic and non-profit […]

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