FEMA works to draw line on high-cost disaster consultants five years after flood
CEDAR RAPIDS – Weathered consultants with Hurricane Katrina on their resumes showed up here almost instantly as city, county and …
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CEDAR RAPIDS – Weathered consultants with Hurricane Katrina on their resumes showed up here almost instantly as city, county and …
Halloween night is a chance for everyone to dress up and play pretend. For Andrea Spillars, a Jefferson City native and regional administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), that means getting to play a very different role.
Jenece Saunders has beautiful memories of her mother. "She was just everybody's friend," Saunders said. "She was helpful." Sign up for our Newsletters Saunders lost her mother, Nancy Offield, in November. Offield lived with Alzheimer's disease and breast cancer. Saunders has worked for the past month to cite COVID-19 as a cause of death on her mother's death certificate since Offield tested positive at the time she died. Saunders is hoping the...