As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.

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Photo courtesy of AFP When calamity strikes, the immediate imperative is saving lives, restoring essential services and delivering relief to those who have lost everything. But once the dust settles - ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. Disasters come in ...

In 2025, Austin was able to get the federal government to reimburse $34.7 million in expenses associated with disaster ...

Disaster recovery is not a simple process. It takes months, even years, for communities to distribute aid, rebuild, and begin to move forward. Your landscape and community has likely changed in many ...

While the 2011 tornado went down as the deadliest to hit the United States in 70 years, a chief consultant to the city said Joplin and Duquesne’s recovery from it also could be one for the books. “I ...

Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Joplin tornado recovery effort, Col. Daniel Patton, speaks at the opening of temporary replacement facilities for Joplin’s fire station 2 in Joplin, Mo., ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of ...

Dr. Montano is an assistant professor of emergency management at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and the author of “Disasterology: Dispatches From the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis.” This summer ...

Underestimate the complexity and cost of cloud computing backup and recovery and you risk missing data and lost customers. Here’s what to do. It’s late on a Friday. You get a call from your CIO that ...