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Misssion Rehearsal Training at the NETC

Last Sunday, February 2nd, I flew to BWI to attend a week of Mission Rehearsal Training at the National Emergency Training Center/Emergency Management Institute located in Emmitsburg, MD.

After a 90-minute bus drive with about 30 other students, some for the class I would be in and some for other classes taking place that week, I arrived at the intake center, got my room assignment and went to the dining hall for dinner before returning to my room in time for the the Super Bowl.

It was a good week of classes on leadership skills, lessons on emergency management processes, exercises that honed our abilities we have gained over the years, and an enjoyable time of catching up with friends and fellow emergency managers (some whom I hadn’t seen in a few years as we have been spread across the country) and finally meeting others I’ve only known by reputation.

Below is a video I made of a few photos from the campus and several selfies I took on the last day of class with many of my old friends and new ones. Even so, I missed getting pictures with some that I wanted to include. Maybe next time. 🙂

@onetoughnerd Decides Not To Go To Harvard After All Because Everybody’s Being Mean #NoSnyderFellowship #OpFlint

On Sunday, June 30, 2019, @prisonculture launched a tweetstorm to right the injustice of granting Rick Snyder a fellowship at Harvard University. People answered her call to action and flooded the Dean of the Kennedy School where Snyder would have spent the next year offering his knowledge and experience to the students of Harvard.

What knowledge and experience did Harvard want The Nerd to share…

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How Fracking Bypassed Democracy

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Oil and gas industry backers have launched their own initiatives, Boulder Weekly reported last week, including one “which would make it nearly impossible for Colorado citizens to ever use direct democracy to amend the constitution in the future.”(More…)

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The initiative, part of the early 20…

“Desperate To Avoid Blame”: Michigan GOP Casts Obama Admin As Flint Villain

Ted Cruz this week reflected on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, which the Republican presidential hopeful blamed, at least in part, on the city having been governed “with one-party government control of far-left Democrats for decades.”

The fact that the crisis was created by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s (R) administration and his emergency manager in Flint – local Democratic officials had no…

“Why Weren’t Their Voices Heard?”: The Awkward Question About Flint That No One Wants To Answer

Flint does not look much like the rest of the state of Michigan, or even the average American city its size.

More than four in ten of its residents live in poverty. A majority of them are African-American. Their homes are worth about one-third of typical houses in Michigan, and the families get by on about half as much income.

This picture, the city’s new mayor believes, helps explain why state…

Michigan Governor Throws Government Workers Under The Bus For Flint Disaster

The criminality of what happened to Flint Michigan must be dissected and reviewed numerous times to make sure that we have indeed learned our lessons in terms of community and resource management. My first inclination is to blame the knee jerk readiness to privatize everything in society, my second impulse is to assign blame on the austerity provoking response of “fiscal emergency managers” who…