As "500 year" floods become nearly annual events, the founder of the nonprofit Disaster Accountability Project explains why ...

Crisfield had been promised $36 million in FEMA funding for a flood mitigation project. FEMA terminated the BRIC program, citing it as "wasteful and ineffective," and rescinded the promised funds.

It's only about $3 million short of what FEMA paid for January's catastrophic wildfires in southern California, which killed 31 people and burned around 40,000 acres, according to a Journal Sentinel ...