• New York City Faces Housing Nightmare in Wake of Storm
• Source: New York Times   |   New York City   |   November 5, 2012
• New York City officials said that they faced the daunting challenge of finding homes for as many as 40,000 people who were left homeless after the devastation of last week’s storm, a situation that the city’s mayor compared to New Orleans’s after Hurricane Katrina.

• Sandy Shows Hospitals Unprepared for Disasters
• Source: Reuters   |   Nation   |   November 5, 2012
• Despite bitter lessons from the recent past, U.S. hospitals are far from ready to protect patients when disaster strikes their facilities.

• Hurricane Forecasting May Suffer Under U.S. Weather Satellite Plan
• Source: NextGov   |   Nation   |   November 5, 2012
• The Obama administration’s plan to share weather satellite frequencies with commercial cellular carriers could severely degrade scientists’ ability to forecast hurricanes and monitor flooding, weather and spectrum, according to experts.

• Coastal Cities Seek New Protections Against Superstorms
• Source: Washington Post   |   Nation   |   November 5, 2012
• Ideas to protect low-lying coastal cities -- even those ideas once dismissed as too expensive or far-fetched -- are getting a second look from officials and scientists worried that climate change will spawn a succession of ever-more-violent Sandys.

• Elderly Face Challenges Coping with Superstorm Sandy
• Source: AP/Arizona Republic   |   East Coast   |   November 5, 2012
• Health-care officials are paying close attention to the elderly since Sandy left millions in the dark.

• Pennsylvania Governor: No Hurricane Deductibles for Homeowners
• Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer   |   Pennsylvania   |   November 2, 2012
• Gov. Corbett said Thursday that homeowners will not have to pay hurricane deductibles on insurance claims resulting from damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
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• New Jersey Postpones Halloween Until Nov. 5
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   New Jersey   |   November 1, 2012
• With his state still recovering from Sandy's wrath, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie issued an executive order Wednesday, postponing Halloween celebrations in the state until Nov. 5.

• NY Governor Cuomo Will Ask Feds to Cover Sandy Storm Costs
• Source: Reuters   |   New York   |   November 1, 2012
• New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday he would ask the U.S. federal government to reimburse up to 100 percent of state and local government costs for cleaning up and repairing damage from massive storm Sandy that hit the state this week.

• West Virginia Candidate Killed in Storm by Tree
• Source: The Los Angeles Times   |   West Virginia   |   November 1, 2012
• A West Virginia state legislative candidate was killed by a falling tree in the intense snowstorm that Sandy swept over the region, and election officials said it is too late to remove his name from Tuesday's ballot.

• U.S. Eases Clean Gasoline Rules in East After Sandy
• Source: Reuters   |   Nation   |   November 1, 2012
• The U.S. environmental regulator temporarily waived clean gasoline requirements through November 20 across the eastern seaboard to ease a supply crunch after Hurricane Sandy.
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• U.S. Intelligence Spending Fell in 2012
• Source: Reuters   |   Nation   |   October 31, 2012
• The U.S. government's total spending on intelligence activities fell in 2012, the second year in a row of declines after years of soaring security spending since the September 11 attacks in 2001.

• Could Hurricane Sandy Push Back the Election?
• Source: Politico   |   Nation   |   October 31, 2012
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing for Hurricane Sandy to disrupt next week’s elections, agency Administrator Craig Fugate said Monday afternoon.

• Mid-Atlantic States Begin Cleaning Up After Sandy
• BY: Dylan Scott   |   Nation   |   October 30, 2012
• From the Carolinas to New York City, state and local authorities have begun the long process of cleaning up billions of dollars in damage and restoring power to millions after Hurricance Sandy hit the region Monday.
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• Supreme Court Weighs Challenge to Eavesdropping Law
• Source: Reuters   |   Nation   |   October 30, 2012
• The Supreme Court on Monday considered who has a right to challenge government eavesdropping on conversations between people in the United States and outside the country in a case touching on federal efforts to fight terrorism.

• Sandy's Impact: State by State
• Source: CNN   |   Nation   |   October 30, 2012
• States along the East Coast were pummeled by post-tropical storm Sandy as it came crashing ashore.