Colleges are going to see Plainfield's an accredited school and say, 'Kids going there are learning what they need to know.'

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Nature is sending us messages. The idea of repeatedly throwing federal dollars at rebuilding the infrastructure in some of these places is crazy. There are certain areas where we simply should retreat.

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Federal flood insurance makes a lot of this development possible in areas where people otherwise would've walked away. And federal spending on beach replenishment encourages continued development of the coast, putting more people at risk. It's time for a national discussion about whether we should pull federal money away from certain areas of the coast.

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I don't know if we've had (a job loss) this big in our five years.

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That turned a two-way conversation into a one-way discussion.

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I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina, ... It's laughable to think it could have been manmade.

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The program was originally aimed at floodplains in rivers. But it's been extended to the coastal areas, where private insurance would cost an unbelievable amount.

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Federal flood insurance makes a lot of this development possible in areas where people otherwise would have walked away. And federal spending on beach replenishment encourages continued development of the coast, putting more people at risk.

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